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Media and Politics in the United States Course description: We will examine print and television media, social media and the Internet; the constitutional status of the political media; who owns and controls the media; media bias; and what is its role in campaigns, elections, and policy-making. I.
Introduction
The Nature of Journalism II.
Media Defined
Language and
Signs III. The Political Context
The First
Amendment and the Media IV.
What the Media Does To Us and For Us
Media and Political Power V.
The Political Media and Self-Government Political
Media and Polarization VI. Reforming the Media
The Ideal
Media Internet Resources
The Annotated Constitution - The Free Speech and Press Clauses -from the
U.S. Congress - [Go to page 1140.] Media Bias/Fact Check --This website classifies media outlets from left to right. Reliable Sources --This is a program on CNN which examines news relating to the media.
Kate
Vinton, “The 15 Billionaires Own America's News
Media Companies“ –from Forbes Magazine,
June 1, 2016
Ashley
Lutz,
"These
6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America" --from
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"Who Owns the Media?"
--from freepress.net
Amanda Taub and Max Fischer, "Where
Countries are Tinderboxes, Facebook is a Match" --from
The New York Times,
"Media and News" --from the
PEW Research Center RT - Question More --the
Russian website Julius Baggini, Book Review of Michael S. Gassaniga,
The
Conscousness Instinct: Unravelling the Mystery of How the
David Callaway,
"Press Freedom is Under Attack" --from USA Today, May 3, 2018
Daniel T. Gilbert,
"How Mental Systems Believe" -from danielgilbert.com "Is the System Rigged Against Democrats"" (book review)--from The New York Times, May 19, 2018 "Top 30 U.S. Newspapers and News Media" --from allyoucanread.com "Louisiana News Media" --from allyoucanread.com Hunt Alcott and Matthew Gentzkow, "Social
Media and Fake News in the 2016 Election"" (Spring, 2017) Diane Herbst, "Donald Trump Told Lesley Stahl--Off Camera--the Real Reason He Attacks the Press" --from people.com
Steve Bannon - ABC - Sunday, June 17, 2018 -- Lying said to be simply
"Particular Vocabulary"
Robert Keiner, "Media
Bias" --from CQ Researcher, May 3, 2013 "Trump and His 'Business Associates': Partners in Crime" --from m.dailykos.com, July 12, 2018
"Russia
Aims to Undermine NATO, Lt. General odges Says" --from NPR, July
24,2018
"Declining Majority of Americans Say the
Internet Has Been Good For Society" --from the PEW Research
Center,
Jilly Dougherty, "How
the Media Became One of Putin's Most Powerful Weapons"
--from The Atlantic,
Aprill 21, 2015
Yoram Hazony,
"The
Liberty of Nations"
-from The Wall Street Journal, August 25, 2018
Jilly Lepore, "The
Hacking of America" --from The New York Times, September 14,
2018
William Galston,
"Today,
Truth Can't Be Taken For Granted," --from The Wall Street Journal,
Jay Smoothe, "A Crash Course on Media
Literacy" --YouTube Video - February, 2018
The Federal Election
Commission --Quick Answers Harvard Law Review --Supreme Court Statistics - 2016 Term -- Part II Local and National TV Advertising and How to Advertise --from fitssmallbusiness.com Jonathan Rauch, "The Constitution of Knowledge" --from nationalaffairs.com Campaign Expenditures --from opensecrets.org
Donald Trump
Interview, October 14, 2018 --from CBS, Sixty Minutes
Campaign Expenditures - 2018
Cycle --from opensecrets.org --from wrkf.org "U.S. Charges Russian With Trying to Influence 2018 Midterms" --from The Wall Street Journal, October 20, 2018 David Brooks, "Yes, I'm an American Nationalist" --from The New York Times, October 25, 2018 Jim Rutenberg, "Trump's Attacks on the Media Are Working" --from The New York TimesI, October 28, 2018. 6 Media Pillars of the 'Alt-Right' --from forward.com Gab.com alt-right.com Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018) [Excerpts of the book in Google Books] Joseph E. Stiglitz, "Meet the 'Change Agents' Who Are Enabling Inequality" - Review of Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018) Drew Lindsay, "Calling Out Phony Philanthropists" - Critique of Anand Giridharadas' interview about his book, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (2018)
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