Readings for today:
- Chapter 4 (*skip the section on the 'hit' system)
- Journalist Amy Goodman on the role that media should play in society.
- News Powerpoint Slides (the entire unit of notes)
- "The Case of the US vs. Bradley Manning," The Listening Post, Al Jazeera.
- Nas, "Sly Fox"
- Glenn Greenwald, "CNN and the business of state-sponsored TV news," The Guardian (UK), Sept 4, 2012.
- "Kardashian's Get 40 Times More News Coverage than Climate Change," Media Matters, June 27, 2012.
- Glenn Greenwald discussing the problem of news 'objectivity' on Democracy Now! and also in The Guardian: "Martha Raddatz and the Faux Objectivity of Journalists."
- David Gutman, "Objectivity Does Not Mean Neutrality: The Danger of False Equivalency," Common Dreams, October 25, 2012.
PR & News - March 14
For today:
- Jon Bailes, "PR, Social Control and Revolt: An Interview with Stuart Ewen," State of Nature, Winter 2009.
- Quiz #3 on news and PR (this week's readings)
For further reading & research:
- Anna Lappé, "Selfish Giving: How Pepsi and Coke are the Champs of Faux Charity," Alternet, April 1, 2013.
- Manufacturing Consent (film)
- Century of the Self, part 1 of 4
Lecture Notes:
