EXAM TODAY

Hello. Remember that your final exam is today and you will need TWO red scantron forms.

Exam II grades

Hello. Exam 2 grades have been posted on MyUCF. I should have grade reports tomorrow. I will post when I have them so check back.

Hostage Crisis

Here is a PBS project on the 444 days. Here is another installment.

CNN

Nightline

No international story other than war dominated American television news for as long as the Iranian hostage crisis. The seizure of the staff of the U.S. embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979 marked the beginning of fourteen months of concentrated, dramatic, and controversial news coverage that affected both public understanding of the hostage crisis and government efforts to resolve it.

Here is a look back at Nightline 30 years after it was created.

FOIA

Here is a history of FOIA.

Here is a list of stories that are based on FOIA.

Attempt on Reagan

Newspapers & the internet

9/11

Here is a collection of newspaper front pages from 9/11.

Barbara Walters

Jessica Savage

Here is information about Jessica Savage.

Ed Bradley

The above is a tribute to Ed Bradley.



This is from one of his most famous interviews.



Here Bradley discusses the interview.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Women's March for Equality

ABC News: "Three things have been difficult to tame. The ocean, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the ocean, but fools and women will take a little longer.”

More lawsuits

Here is more about Christine Craft who filed a broadcast journalism discrimination lawsuit in the 1980s.



These are the plaintiffs in the Daily News 4 discrimination lawsuit. It ended in a settlement, as did the other lawsuits. It was settled after a jury made a decision but before damages were awarded. Here is a clip on the case.

Butcher, Boylan and Simpson

Here is a link about Mary Lou Butcher. That's her in the photo above.

Here is a link to her oral history.

Here is information on Betsy Wade Boylan.



Here is information on Carole Simpson - featured in the video on women & the media we watched in class.

Muckrakers

** Please read the Muckraking Chapter for today, rather than Municipal Corruption.**



Lincoln Steffens took on municipal corruption - beginning in St. Louis.



Upton Sinclair published the Jungle in 1906. This expose led to the establishment of the Pure Food and Drug Act.



Ida Tarbell published her expose of Standard Oil in 1902.



McClure Magazine from 1901. It was one of the top muckraking magazines of its time.

Frost/Nixon

60 Minutes

CBS and 60 Minutes take on the tobacco industry.

American Indian Movement

Second room change reminder

Due to equipment upgrades in our current classroom this week, we will be meeting in a new location.

From 6/14-6/18, we will meet in MAP 359. (MAP stands for Math & Physics.)

Katharine Graham

Watergate & Deep Throat

Woodward and Bernstein

Here is a link to the papers of Woodward and Bernstein located at the University of Texas. It includes primary documents, including their original notes on Watergate, and an extended interview.

Exam 1 Reports

Exam 1 reports are ready. I will have them available today, Wednesday, from 12:30-1:30 and tomorrow, Thursday from 1-2.

Ladies Home Journal

Here is more about the 1970 Ladies Home Journal sit-in from one of the women who was there.

Ford pardons Nixon

Room change for next week

Due to equipment upgrades in our current class next week, we will be meeting in a new location.

From 6/14-6/18, we will meet in MAP 359. (MAP stands for Math & Physics.)

Here is a link to a campus map.

Vera Glaser

Wire service reporter Vera Glaser famously asked President Nixon the following question at a televised press conference:

"Mr. President, since you've been inaugurated, you have made approximately 200 presidential appointments, and only three of them have gone to women. Can we expect some more equitable recognition of women's abilities, or are we going to remain the lost sex?"

According to Glaser: "The President kind of smiled and leaned back. He said, "Would you care to come into the Administration?" Frankly, I thought that was a little snide. But he must have realized, "I'm on television with 50 million people watching," and he turned quite serious. "Well, you know," he said, "I really wasn't aware of that. We will do something as soon as possible." I took that as the kind of empty promise a politician might make. But indeed he did get going. He was the first President to give a lot of attention to it.

One of her oral histories is available here.

Her obituary is available here.

Bra burning myth

Here is a good article about the bra burning myth. Here is another analysis.

Watergate, The Washington Post and Cronkite

Here is a link to some of the primary documents from Woodward and Bernstein's reporting.


Watch CBS News Videos Online

Watergate, Nixon & the tapes

Nixon released the tapes.

Vivian Castleberry

Vivian Castleberry was interviewed for the Washington Press Club Foundation's oral history project, Women in Journalism.

She also has an oral history at the Sixth Floor Museum.

She is included in this Texas A & M history project.




The Vivian Castleberry Peace Institute at the University of North Texas has been officially approved. It is one of the only institutes of its kind in the county.

Vivian became an active part of the peace movement after she retired as the women's page editor in Dallas. As women's page editor, she helped change the structure of women's news.

Sen. Lori Wilson

Senator Lori Wilson speaking about the E.R.A.



Florida Senate, 1973

National Press Club

Here is information about the history of the National Press Club.

From Girls in the Balcony by Nan Robertson regarding the 1955 decision by the National Press Club regarding women:

“Here were the people in the balcony, distinguished journalists treated like second-class citizens. I had to cover the stories there. Some people equated the balcony with the back of the bus, but at least the bus got everybody to the same destination just as well. We could not ask questions of the speakers. You entered and left through a back door. It was discrimination at its rawest .”

-- Bonnie Angelo, chief of the Newsday bureau in Washington

Milwaukee Press Club

Exam I are posted

Hello. Your grades are now posted. As a reminder:
Graded work:
Exam I 300 points
Exam II 300 points
Exam IIIA & B 400 points
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1,000 points

Grading Scale:
900-1,000 points= A
800-899 points = B
700-799 points = C
600-699 points = D
<600 = F

** It will be a few more days until I have grade reports. I will post when I have them.

Newspapers & food sections

Thursday's class

As noted in the syllabus, please watch these two videos in place of class on Thursday. We will discuss the videos on Monday.

Here is an interview with Otis Chandler, the longtime editor of the Los Angeles Times - one of the most significant family-owned newspapers in the country for decades.


Also, watch this short documentary about Dallas Times Heraldn women's page editor Vivian Castleberry. Here is a link - click on the third video on the middle/right side of your screen.

Think about the production element of P-C-A as you watch.

Vanderbilt Television News Archives

Here is a link to the Vanderbilt Television News Archives.

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. It haa been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.

Freedom Riders

More civil rights coverage

Here is a link to a documentary clip about the Little Rock Nine, fifty years later.

Here is a link to footage on sit-ins in Miami.

Black and ethnic press

Here is a link to the documentary, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, shown on PBS.

Pay extra attention to Charlotta Bass, Robert L. Vann, John Henry Murphy, Ida B. Wells and Robert S. Abbott.

Here is a link to the different ethnic presses in Seattle. Many cities had similiar newspapers, varying based on region.

NY Times v Sullivan

Above is the ad that led to The New York Times v Sullivan. Here's the case.

Media coverage of the Watts riots

Here is background on the Watts riots.

Civil Rights Coverage in Southern Newspapers

The Lexington Herald-Leader featured a prominent clarification on its front page in July 2004, apologizing for the newspaper's failures in covering the 1960s civil rights movement.

Here's a story about the apology.

Here is link to a multi-media civil rights comparative history project from the Louisville Courier-Journal.