Readings

• Brian Anse Patrick. 2011. The Ten Commandments of Propaganda (‘Disambiguation’). London: Artkos. (you might have better luck downloading this to your machine than trying to view it in Canvas)
• Jonathan Weisman. 2024. Is the partisan divide too big to be bridged? June 16, New York Times.
• Sara Fischer. 2025. US press freedom falls to historic low. May 2, Axios. (pdf)
• Cary Funk and John Gramlich. 2021. 10 facts about Americans and coronavirus vaccines. March 23, Pew Research Center.

Lecture pages

General reference

• 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)