READINGS: CORE 164
Spring 2009

 Sequential Chronology of Topics and Assigned Readings
(Note: these are subject to change)

I.  MEDIA ECONOMICS
Hinkley: What is a Corporation?
Lecture: Basic Media Economics
Lecture: Media Concentration
McChesney: The New Global Media (Password Required)

II. MEDIA POLITICS
    A.  Media Influence on Government & the Political Process
Lewis: Media Money: How Corporate Spending Blocked Political Ad Reform . . .
Hertz: Read It in the Papers (Password Required)
The candidacy of Howard Dean:
        Jensen: Why the Media Turned on Gov. Dean
        Kincaid: The Media Destroyed Howard Dean
Bartley/O'Brian: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (74 min. streaming video via Google video)
Gilliam: New Media's Influence on Presidential Politics (2 min. streaming video via YouTube)
Lecture: Television & Politics

    B.  Government Influence on Media: Controlling the Message & Messenger
        1.  Censorship
            a.  Formal / Direct
Lecture: Government Censorship
Mintz: U.S. Bans Al-Mar (Password Required)
Leverett: What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran (Password Required)
Discovery-Time: Reporters at War (Password Required)
Note "1^st Amendment" below
Note "Federal Communications Commission" below
           b.  Informal / Indirect
                i.  Institutional Self-Censorship
Orwell: Freedom of the Press (Password Required)
                ii.  Copyright
Loren: The Purpose of Copyright
Phillips: Will I Have to Pay $222,000? (Password Required)
Sandoval - RIAA Drops Lawsuits (Password Required)
Johnsen: Good Copy Bad Copy (59 min. streaming video)
                iii. Property Right
Corporate Cultural Censorship:
        Klein: No Logo: Corporate Censorship (Password Required)
        MPAA Movie Ratings
Corporate Political Censorship:
        CBS/AP: Disney Blocks Anti-Bush Film
        Variety: NBC Cancels Ads
        Media Matters: Air America Blacklist Memo
        CNET: AT&T's Censorship of Pearl Jam
        Shoup: Discovery Channel Puts the Breaks on "Taxi . . ."

        2.  Government Propaganda
            a.  Overt
Wikipedia: Propaganda
Lecture: Propaganda, Bias, and Media
The White House, The Department of Defense, etc.
            b.  Covert
Rage Against the Machine: Bullet in the Head
Pilger: Interview
Bernays: Propaganda
Chomsky: Media Control (Password Required)
Bernstein: The CIA and the Media (Password Required)
        Webb: The Mighty Wurlitzer Plays On (Password Required)
Smith: A Strategy of Lies
Waxman: Iraq on the Record (pdf) (pp. i-iv)
Bamford: The Man Who Sold the War (Password Required)
Rich: The White House Stages Its 'Daily Show' (Password Required)

       3.  1^st Amendment
The Bill of Rights
14^th Amendment
The Incorporation Doctrine
Selected case law:
    Abrams v. U.S., 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
    Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927)
    Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
    Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)            
    Near v. Minnesota, 283 U.S. 697 (1931)
    Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665 (1972)
   
        4.  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - U.S. Regulatory Agency
FCC Home Page
FCC Enforcement actions:
    NBC - Golden Globe Awards, Jan. 2003 (pdf file)
    CBS - Superbowl XXXVIII, Feb. 2004 (pdf file)
    CBN - 700 Club, Aug. 2005
FCC Investigation:
    Comcast - Data Discrimination, Jan. 2008 (Password Required)

III.  MEDIA EFFECTS
Lecture: Analysis of Media Effects
ASU Research: Media Fear Mongers
Glassner: The Culture of Fear – Chapters 1 & 9 (Password Required)
Lecture: Gender & Media
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (video transcript - pdf file)

MISCELLANEOUS

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