Listed in: Political Science, as POSC-120
Masha Gessen (Section 01)
[IL, SC] We all know that the American media failed the American public during the 2016 election – or do we? Is it the job of the media to predict election outcomes accurately (or at all)? Is it up to journalists to alert the nation to the threat it faces? Are media professionals there to entertain, educate, or report impartially? And while we are at it, what is it to report impartially? This course will explore the assumptions that underlie journalism as it is practiced and consumed in the United States. Then, we will look at what went wrong, or what didn’t go wrong – what happened – with and in the media during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Limited to 18 students. Spring semester. Visiting Professor Gessen.
Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM MERR 403
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What Journalism Could Be | Polity | Barbie Zelizer | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Race-baiter : how the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation | St. Martin's Press | Eric Deggans | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| America's Battle for Media Democracy | Cambridge University Press | Victor Pickard | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History | Dey Street Books | Katy Tur | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus | Spiegel & Grau | Matt Taibbi | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload | Bloomsbury USA | Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect | Three Rivers Press | Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Republic of denial : press, politics, and public life | Yale University Press | Michael Janeway | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Trump and the Media | MIT Press | Pablo Bockowski and Zizi Papacharissi | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.