Thursday, June 24, 2010
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Ed Bradley
The above is a tribute to Ed Bradley.
This is from one of his most famous interviews.
Here Bradley discusses the interview.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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.
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.
Monday, June 14, 2010
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.)
From 6/14-6/18, we will meet in MAP 359. (MAP stands for Math & Physics.)
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Ladies Home Journal
Here is more about the 1970 Ladies Home Journal sit-in from one of the women who was there.
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.
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.
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
Monday, June 7, 2010
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.
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.
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
Sunday, June 6, 2010
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
_____________________________________________
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.
Graded work:
Exam I 300 points
Exam II 300 points
Exam IIIA & B 400 points
_____________________________________________
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.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
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.
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.
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.
More civil rights coverage
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
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.
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.
Here's a story about the apology.
Here is link to a multi-media civil rights comparative history project from the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson
Here is a link to images and an analysis of the Vietnam War, the media and President Johnson.
Dickey Chapelle
Photojournalist Dickey Chapelle (1919-1965) became one of the first female war correspondents, covering World War II, the Korean conflict and Vietnam Here is more about her life.
On the morning of November 4, 1965, Chapelle was killed by a land mine while on patrol with a platoon, becoming the first war correspondent killed in Vietnam and the first female reporter to die in combat.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Walter Cronkite
Watch CBS News Videos Online
Here is the text of the Cronkite broadcast on the Vietnam War mentioned in the book.
Here a story about Cronkite and the FBI files.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monday, May 24, 2010
Government Records
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Marjorie Paxson
WWII and Rosie the Riveter
Above is one of the best-known propaganda posters. Here is more about how it was used in the media.
Above is the Norman Rockwell image of Rosie - the one described in your book. Notice the difference between the magazine cover and the government version.
Dorothea Lange images
This photo, Migrant Mother, is one you may have seen before in textbooks. It was shot in a California migrant labor camp in 1936.
Here is an image that was shot by Lange the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked. It is the storefront of a Japanese American business.
Here is an image Lange shot in an internment camp in San Francisco in April 1942.
** Why are the bottom two photos important to the concept of the media shaping history?
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Iron Jawed Angels
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Maggie Savoy
Maggie Savoy was a three-time Penney-Missouri Award winner while a women's page editor at the Arizona Republic.
She was eventually the keynote speaker at the Awards' ceremony.
She wrote several letters to Paul Myhre, the awards' director. The letters are at the University of Missouri.
Jim Bellows was Maggie's third husband. They remained married until her death in 1970 at age 50.
An article about her career is available in the journal, California History - the April 2009 issue.
Abolitionist Newspapers
First U.S. Editorial Cartoon
"The image is of a curving snake cut into pieces, each of which bears the abbreviated name of one of the 13 original colonies. The title, Join, or Die, and its alternate caption, Unite or Die, is an admonition to join together in order to survive, first, a foreign power on the frontier, but, later, Britain's tyrannical behavior toward her colonies. This image was cut from the May 9, 1754 issue of Franklin's paper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, the newspaper that went up and down the colonial coast, carried by the postal system that had been expanded and improved by Franklin."
Primary Sources
Here is a link to the National Press Club oral history collection.
Here is a link to the Women in Journalism oral history project.
Here is a link to the Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting oral history project.
Here is a link to speeches by journalists and some more oral histories.
Here is a link to an archive with the papers of women journalists.
Here is link to an archive with the papers of several famous journalists and publication.
Here is a link to the Women in Journalism oral history project.
Here is a link to the Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting oral history project.
Here is a link to speeches by journalists and some more oral histories.
Here is a link to an archive with the papers of women journalists.
Here is link to an archive with the papers of several famous journalists and publication.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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