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...Bardwell's U.S. politics web links

POSC 255: Online Readings [WEB]

Pew Research, “The Media: More Voices, Less Credibility”

Compaine, "Domination Fantasies"

PEJ, "Cable TV: Content Analysis 2008"

Bai, "The Framing Wars"

Perlmutter, "The Ascent of Blogging"
Palser, "Journalism's Backseat Drivers"

Jackson, "False Ads: There Ought to Be a Law! Or Maybe Not"
FactCheck.org, "The Whoppers of 2004"

Commission on Presidential Debates, "Candidate Selection Process"
"Memo of Understanding for the 1988 Debate"

Lasica, "Internet Journalism & Clinton-Lewinsky" (read Intro & Pts. 2-3)

Auletta, "Fortress Bush"

Kull, "Misperceptions, the Media, & the Iraq War"

Cunningham, "Rethinking Objectivity"

JFK, "A Force That Has Changed the Political Scene"

Sunstein, "The Daily We"

CLIPS / LINKS for short, in-class activities:

JFK-Nixon

Stahl VIDEO clip

U.K. Newspapers: Mirror / Guardian / Telegraph / Sun (news) & Sun (front page)

PowerPoint Lectures

Gatekeeping

Political Ads

Partisan Press

CommObjective Press

Fragmented Press

Sunstein