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This syllabus will
change during the semester; it's your responsibility to stay
abreast of changes announced in class and on the course web
site.
Aug 30 (Wed) -
Introduction, syllabus, assignments, readings
Videotape: "Electronic Battalions: 1975-1988"
Sept 1 (Fri) - Videotape:
"Harvest of Shame"
Sept 4 (Mon) - NO CLASS
(Labor Day)
Sept 6 (Wed) -
Topic: Before Vietnam - Media & Government
Video: Eyes of the World: 1919-1945 (excerpts)
Sept 8 (Fri) -
Discussion: Before Vietnam
Video: Cold War Postscript (#4) "War of Words"
Assignment: Strobel chapter 1, pp. 19-56
Assignment: Pop assignment A (1-page) due 9/11 (Cuban
Missile Crisis)
Assignment: Pop assignment B (1-page) due 9/13
(Cronkite/Vietnam)
Sept 11 (Mon)
Topic: Global Crises I (1960's)
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Video: Dateline 1962
Pop assignment A due: "Cuban Missile Crisis" (1962). Be
familiar with the role of the news media.
Sept 13 (Wed)
Topic: Vietnam - Hinge of Media History
Video: Vietnam with Walter Cronkite
Pop assignment B due: "Cronkite/Vietnam" (1968)
Pop Assignment C (1-page) "My Lai/Vietnam" due Mon
9/18
Sept 15 (Fri)
Discussion: Vietnam's impact
Guest: TBA
Video: Vietnam Syndrome (Cold War Postscript)
Sept 18 (Mon)
Topic: 1968 Turmoil & media role in U.S. Presidential
elections
Video: "1968"
Pop assignment C due: "My Lai/Vietnam"
Assignment: Pop assignment D (1-page) (Iran Hostage crisis
due 9/22 )
Sept 20 (Wed)
Topic: Watergate
Sept 22 (Fri)
Topic: Global Crises II (1970's)
Iran Hostage Crisis
Video: Electronic Battalions
Pop assignment D due: "Iran hostage crisis" (1979-80). Be
familiar with the role of the news media.
Pop assignment E: McCarthy & the Media due Wed
9/27
Sept 25 (Mon)
Topic: Broadcast foundations I
Assignment: Read Salant pp 1-126 and Foreword by Mike
Wallace and (optional for context) Acknowledgments
Assignment: See "Wiley Toon Attention Span" (Supplemental
readings)
Sept 27 (Wed)
Topic: Broadcast foundations II (McCarthy years)
Video: Milo Radulovic
Pop assignment E due ("McCarthy & the
Media")
Sept 29 (Fri)
Discussion: Broadcast foundations
Video: Murrow & McCarthy
Oct 2 (Mon)
Topic: The news "business"
Video: Television News
Oct 4 (Wed)
Topic: When "business" influences content
Video: The Global Eye (1989-1997)
Oct 6 (Fri)
Discussion: The news "business"
Assignment: Read Salant pp. 127-179 (related to "The
Insider")
Oct 9 (Mon) (Yom Kippur
holiday)
Topic: Media "bias"
Assignment: Read Salant pp. 229-273 (related to "The
Insider")
Oct 11 (Wed) - NO
CLASS
Assignment: View the movie "The Insider" (available at the
Morris Library as DVD # 181 on reserve)
Assignment: Analysis paper ("The Insider") due Fri Oct 20 by
4:00pm
Note:
To allow you ample time to view and analyze the movie
carefully and complete your Salant readings, and to allow
you time for writing your papers based on the movie and the
readings, there will be no class on Wednesday and Friday
this week and on Monday and Friday next week. Please be
attentive to the class schedule.
Oct 13 (Fri) - NO
CLASS
Oct 16 (Mon) - NO
CLASS
Oct 18 (Wed)
Discussion: "The Insider"
As you wrap up your papers, be prepared to discuss your
ideas (and learn from others) in our class
discussion.
Oct 20 (Fri) - NO
CLASS
Papers due today ("The Insider") by 4:00pm
Oct 23 (Mon)
Topic: Global Crises III (1980's & 1990's)
Video: Somalia soldiers
Assignment: Pop assignments F, Somalia (1-page) due Friday
Oct 27
Oct 25 (Wed)
Topic: International crisis (media) management
Guest speaker: TBA
Read Strobel chapters 2 & 3 (pp 57-125)
Oct 27 (Fri)
Discussion: Somalia
Pop assignment F due (1-page) Somalia
Oct 30 (Mon)
Topic: The CNN Effect
Assignment: Strobel chapters 4 & 5 (pp 127 - 209),
Livingston (on web site)
Nov 1 (Wed)
Topic: Contrasting Conflicts
Chechnya vs. Bosnia
Video: Chechnya coverage
Nov 3 (Fri)
Topic: TBD
Nov 6 (Mon)
Topic: Photo Manipulation - Is Seeing Really Believing?
Assignment: Visit web sites listed on Supplemental readings
page under "Online Presentations" ("The Commissar Vanishes"
and "Two Sides, One Story")
Nov 8 (Wed)
Topic: TBD
Nov 10 (Fri)
Video: "Nightline with Ted Koppel"
Nov 13 (Mon)
Field Trip - Washington DC (details to be
announced)
Nov 15 (Wed)
Topic: Do audience ratings drive news content? Video:
"Audience and Feedback"
Assignment: Internet credibility project (3-5 pages). Due
Nov 20)
Assignment: Read article "Online Journalists Get Rated, too
(NYT 11/11/99) (Supplemental Readings)
Assignment: Read Zukin, "Generation X" pp. 1-45
(Supplemental readings)
Nov 17 (Fri)
Topic: The New News
Assignment: (Supplemental Readings) Kalb "The New News"
Robert Samuelson, Washington Post (6/18/99) "The End of
News"
Assignment: Read Rosenstiel & Kovach (Warp Speed) pp
1-98
Nov 20 (Mon)
Topic: Internet Credibility
Internet Credibility Project papers due today
Nov 22 (Wed)
Topic: TBD
Nov 24 (Fri) - NO CLASS
(Thanksgiving)
Nov 27 (Mon)
Topic: The Wild, Wild Web
Assignment: (Supplemental readings)
"The Wild Wild Web" WashPost 6/1/99
O'Mahony "The Future of WWW Archives"
Nov 29 (Wed)
Topic: Global New Media
Video: "Global Media"
Assignment: Middle East Insight pp. 29-61 (reserve)
Assignments: Read Mifflin, NYT 10/12/98
Dec 1 (Fri)
Topic: TBD
Final Exams (take-home) issued today - due Mon Dec
11
Dec 4 (Mon)
Topic: TBD
Dec 6 (Wed) - LAST
CLASS
Topic: Outlook for the future
Dec 8 (Fri) - Optional
early submission of final exam essays
Dec 11 (Mon) - Final exam
essays due
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