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Sep 5 - Thurs
Introduction - Review of course logistics, syllabus,
policies and topics
Assignment
#1 issued. Due Sep
10.
Part One: Media & Politics
in the United States
Sep 10 - Tues
The Politics of September 11
Assignment
#1 due today
Assignment
#2 issued. Due
Sept 12.
Reading: Bennett chapters 1,2
Web
site readings on Media & the War on
Terrorism
Sep 11 - Weds -
attend SPECIAL EVENT
6:30pm commemoration event at UD
Sep 12 - Thurs
The Politics of Sept 11 - discussion
Assignment
#2 due today
Reading: Bennett chapter 4
Web
site readings on Media & the War on
Terrorism
Sep 17 - Tues
1968: Politics & Media Come of Age
Video: "1968:Chicago" (VHS5062) (excerpts)
Reading: Sabato chapters 1, 2
Assignment
#3 issued: "Feeding Frenzy" - paper due Sept
26
Sep 19- Thurs
The Power and the Glory? Richard Nixon and the Media
Video: "Television and the Presidency" (VHS2567)
(excerpts)
Reading: Sabato chapter 3
Sep 24 - Tues
Feeding Frenzy: The Politician's View
Guest speaker: (Margaret Aitken)
Reading: Sabato chapter 5
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Sep 26 - Thurs
Sex, Lies, the Media and the Presidency
Reading: Kalb, Marvin. The
Rise of the "New News": A Case Study of Two Root Causes of
the
Modern Scandal Coverage
Reading: Bennett pp. 222-228
Assignment
#3 due today ("Frenzy")
Oct 1 - Tues
Shaping their own image (political advertising & the
media)
Presentation/discussion: Web ads (excerpts)
Assignment: Browse historical campaign ads before
class at:
Political
TV Advertising, hopscotching through
history
Reading: Sabato chapter 4
Oct 2 - Weds -
attend SPECIAL EVENT
NYTimes journalist Nicholas Kristoff speaks at UD -
7:30pm
Oct 3 -Thurs
Discussion: Kristoff's talk and global views of the U.S.
Back to the '60's - Straining Trust
Video: The U-2 Affair (VHS 7549) (:53)
Assignment
#4 issued. Due Oct 15
Bennett: Chapter 5
Oct
8 - Tues
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (40th Anniversary this year)
Video: Dateline 1962 (VHS 1515)
Oct 10 - Thurs
NO CLASS
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Oct 15 - Tues
The Journalist's view
Guest
speaker: Carin Dessauer, fmr CNN political
journalist
Florida Election Debacle: Was TV to Blame?
Reading: Was
the media to blame? (Washington
Post)
And, in case you've forgotten how it happened...
NYT
Final Report on How Bush Took the 2000
Election
Reading: Sabato chapters 6, 7, 8
Assignment
#4 due
Oct 17 - Thurs
In the public's interest? The media's own interests
Presentation/discussion
Reading: How
the Media Buy Political
Influence
Caving
to a Cash Cow
Bennett chapters 2, 3
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the top
Part Two: Media & International
Politics
Oct 22 - Tues
Tangling international and domestic politics: Iran
Video: Iran Hostage Crisis (VHS 5335 p5)
Oct 24 - Thurs
The Vietnam Syndrome: Bombing Vietnam, bombing Iraq
Video: Vietnam with Walter Cronkite (VHS 4393 &
6338) excerpts
Reading: Strobel chapters 1, 2
Oct
29 - Tues
Selling of the Pentagon
Video (VHS 7014)
Assignment
#5 (Global Media)
issued. Due Nov 7
Oct 31 - Thurs
"Vietmalia"
Video: Cold War Postscript #11 ("Vietnam")
Reading: Strobel chapter 3, 4, 5
Livingston, Clarifying
The CNN Effect
Nov 5 - Tues -
NO CLASS - ELECTION DAY - VOTE!
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Nov 7 - Thurs
Assignment
#5 (Global Media)
due today
Nov 12 -
Tues
Media & the Military
Video: VHS5335 (part 6) The Global Eye
(1989-1997)
Readings:
Gowing
"Media Coverage: Help or
Hindrance"
(optional) Public
Reaction to U.S. Military Casualties (Kull &
Ramsay)
Nov 14- Thurs
Media Technology and Global Politics
Presentation: Media Technology Timeline
Reading TBA
Nov 19 - Tues
International media politics
Readings: (on
web site under
"Yugoslavia-related")
NYT
Russians See and Read Another Slant to the War
(April 4,
1999)
WashPost
USIA Sets Its Sites on
Yugoslavia
(April 16, 1999)
NYT
NATO Plans Kosovo Media
Controls
(August 16, 1999)
NYTimes
Serb TV Switches Allegiances
(12/17/2000)
WashPost
U.S. Plans Media Blitz in
Macedonia
(8/17/01)
Nov 19 - Weds - attend SPECIAL
EVENT
Former White House
national security council staffer Susan
E. Rice -
"Managing Allies & Adversaries: A Critique of U.S.
National Security Policy"
Mitchell Hall - 7:30pm
Q&A with students - Gore 102 -
4:30-5:30pm
Nov 21- Thurs
Media & Politics in the Middle East
Qana, Golan, Palestinians
Readings:
Baltimore
Sun: Window on the Arab
World (July 23,
2001)
Middle
East Government Media Face Independent
Competition (Begleiter)
UPDATE!
Nov 26 -
Tues
Chinese-American Politics & the Media
Spy plane, spy scientist
Presentation: China & the U.S.
Readings: China
media - a Chinese "CNN"
(NYTimes) (January
8, 2001)
U.S.
helps Chinese evade web
censorship
Final Exam Assignment issued - due Dec 10:
Final
Exam Assignment
Nov 28 - Thurs
NO CLASS (THANKSGIVING RECESS)
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UPDATE!
Dec 3- Tues
Post-election analysis
Guest speaker William Schneider, CNN Senior Political Analyst
Dec 5- Thurs
Global Media & Politics: The Internet's
effect
Dec 10- Tues
Conclusions & Reflections
Discussion
Final
Exam Assignment due today at 2:00pm
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