Crisis News! The University of Delaware Department of Communication COMM418-012 Spring, 2002 Professor Ralph J. Begleiter Readings Updated 4/8/02 Crisis News Home

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• Three books are required reading. Other required readings will include all or parts of papers and articles, many of which are available on this page and the syllabus page. • There are two optional books, and one optional video, for this class. You will find them valuable in understanding the broadcast news business, but they aqre not required reading. Required Readings - Undergrad Students Buzenberg, Susan and Buzenberg, Bill, Editors. Salant, CBS, and the Battle for the Soul of Broadcast Journalism. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8133-9091-5. (Note: This book is out of print. You may find used copies at the Delaware Book Exchange in Newark, or through an online bookstore.) Strobel, Warren. Late Breaking Foreign Policy. U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997. ISBN: 1878379674. Rosenstiel, Tom and Bill Kovach. Warp Speed: America in the Age of the Mixed Media. The Century Foundation, 2000. ISBN 0870784366. The New York Times daily newspaper. Students are required to keep up with the paper either online or through a subscription. Discount M-F subscriptions are available t students through the Newark Newsstand. Optional Readings - Undergrad Students Bennett, W. Lance. News: The Politics of Illusion (fourth edition). New York: Longman Press. ISBN 0-8013-1921-8 Kalb, Marvin. One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, & 13 Days That Tarnished American Journalism. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-85939-4 Readings - Grad Students Kalb, Marvin. One Scandalous Story: Clinton, Lewinsky, & 13 Days That Tarnished American Journalism. New York: The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-85939-4 Taylor, Phillip. Global Communications, International Affairs and the Media Since 1945. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11679-1 Bennett, W. Lance. News: The Politics of Illusion (fourth edition). New York: Longman Press. ISBN 0-8013-1921-8 Supplemental Readings: Articles, Papers & Pamphlets These readings are also available as links directly from the course Syllabus. Others may be added to the web site periodically. To read some of these electronic documents, you'll need to install the Adobe Acrobat Reader program on your computer; it's a free, easy-to-install download, available here. • Kalb, Marvin. The Rise of the "New News": A Case Study of Two Root Causes of the Modern Scandal Coverage. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government. Discussion Paper D-34, October, 1998. • Mifflin, Lawrie. Big Three Networks Forced to Revise News-Gathering Methods page C1 The New York Times October 12, 1998. • O'Mahony, Daniel P. Will Future Readers have Electronic Access to the Starr Report? Article in the Brown University George Street Journal, October, 1998. • Zukin, Cliff. Generation X and the News. Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, 1997. • "Focus on the New Media" Middle East Insight pp. 29-62 March-April, 1999. (Available in electronic library reserve.) "Syria Steps Warily Toward Modernism" The Washington Post April 27, 2000 Howard Schneider • "Wild Wild Web" page 4/Health The Washington Post June 1, 1999. • Livingston, Steven. Clarifying the CNN Effect. Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Research Paper R-18, June, 1997. (Available in electronic library reserve.) • Wiley Toon "Attention Span" • Samuelson, The Washington Post, "The End of News" (6/18/99) • NYT Online Journalists are getting Rated, too (11/11/99) • "Wrapping the News in the Flag" Begleiter & Lambe 2002 Online Presentations • The Commissar Vanishes (Newseum) • "Two Sides, One Story" (Berlin) (Newseum) Video note You will be required for this class to view the movie "The Insider" (see course schedule). It will be available for viewing on DVD at the Morris Library, and we may schedule a "group" viewing in at an appropriate time, after you have completed the assigned reading associated with our class. An optional assignment includes viewing the the recent release of "Blackhawk Down." You may wish to make note of when the movie is showing, and when the assignment is pertinent.