Readings

• Brian Anse Patrick. 2011. The Ten Commandments of Propaganda (‘Disambiguation’). London: Artkos. In Canvas.
• Jonathan Weisman. 2024. Is the partisan divide too big to be bridged? June 16, New York Times (pdf).
• Jeffrey Skelly. 2021. Republicans really, really dislike Biden. But it’s not just about him. June 10, fivethirtyeight.com.
• Cary Funk and John Gramlich. 2021. 10 facts about Americans and coronavirus vaccines. March 23, Pew Research Center.

Lecture pages

General reference

• What’s news today?
• Glossary
• Advice

For this week

• Journalist code of ethics–some reference points
• How we got here
• Are media biased?
• Individual and structural views
• Coke, Pepsi, Republicans and Democrats
• Audience bait

• Bias (classroom outline–worth perusing the links)

Video clips

• Jon Stewart takes down CNN’s Crossfire (consider his argument that media bias accusations are merely partisan strategy)