Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Summer Quarter 2008
• Autumn Quarter 2008

Taso Lagos
POL S 304
Seattle Campus

The Press and Politics in the United States

Journalists' role in elections and public policy. Relationship between news coverage and political campaigns. Study and analysis of local political newswriting, reporting, and response by local and state political figures. Extensive off-campus experience included. Offered: jointly with COM 304.

Class description

Description: Journalists role in elections and public policy. Course also looks at current climate of press-state relations as it affects public participation in civic affairs, the influence of emerging new digital technologies in this process and what impact press-state links have on the democratic experiment.

Student learning goals

General method of instruction

Recommended preparation

Text: Breaking up America by Joseph Turow; Democracy by Disclosure by Mary Graham; Surprise, Security and American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis; Gag Rule by Lewis H. Lapham; War is a Force that Gives us Meaning by Chris Hedges; Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens.

Class assignments and grading

Text: Breaking up America by Joseph Turow; Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens; Culture Code, Clotaire Rapaille; PR: Social History of Spin by Stuart Ewen; American Soul by Jacob Needleman.

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