History of Journalism Spring 2012 Office Hours: M, W 24; T TH 2:303:30 CMMN A450001 and by appointment Dr. Leslie Parr Office: 306 Communications [email protected]
Description: This course explores the development of journalism in the context of the social, political and cultural history of the United States. We will analyze the role media have played during critical moments in the nation’s history and the contributions made by notable journalists from the American Revolution to the recent past.
Texts: Rodger Streitmatter, Mightier Than the Sword: How the News Media Have Shaped American History, 3rd. ed. Bob Edwards, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism Judith and William Serrin (ed.), Muckraking: The Journalism That Changed America Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men
Expected student learning outcomes: In accordance with ACEJMC accreditation values and competencies, upon completion of this course, students should be able to: ‐‐ demonstrate an understanding of the history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping communications ‐‐ demonstrate an understanding of the gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and, as appropriate, other forms of diversity on domestic society in relation to mass communications ‐‐ conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions in which they work ‐‐ critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness ‐‐ think critically, creatively and independently
Assignments: You will have a book test on Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism and one on All the President’s Men, an oral report and paper on a selected journalist in addition to your reading assignments. Details of these assignments will be discussed in class.
You are expected to have read assignments before class and participate in class discussions.
Your oral report will consist of a 10‐minute talk on the work of a major journalist. You cannot read your report. You are expected to have thoroughly mastered the material you present to the class and deliver the talk in an engaging and professional manner.
The course syllabus is subject to change during the semester.
Tests and quizzes: Both the midterm and the final will consist primarily of essay questions. You must take the tests on the assigned date. I will not give make‐ups, barring exceptional circumstances.
I will also give announced and unannounced quizzes on the reading. No make‐ups.
Classroom Decorum: Students are expected to come to class on time. Cell phones and laptop computers should be put away during class. Do not bring food to class and please refrain from chewing gum. Please do not leave the room until the class is over.
Integrity of Scholarship: You must do all of your own research and writing. Read “Integrity of Scholarship and Grades,” in the online Loyola Undergraduate Bulletin: http://2011bulletin.loyno.edu/undergraduate/academic‐regulations‐ details#integrity A violation will result in a failing grade for the course.
Grades: Midterm ‐20% Final ‐ 20% Oral report ‐10% Book tests – 10% ea. Paper ‐ 15% Quizzes, class participation ‐ 15%
Grade scale: A 95‐100, A‐ 90‐94 (for exceptional work) B+ 88‐89, B 85‐87, B‐ 80‐84 (for good work) C+78‐79, C 74‐77, C‐ 70‐73 (for average work) D+ 68‐69, D 64‐67‐69, D‐ 60‐63 (for less than average work) F = below 60 (for inadequate work)
Attendance Policy: You are expected to attend all classes. I will excuse two absences. After that, I will deduct one point from your final grade for each class missed. Any student who misses 15% of all classes may receive an F. I expect you to come to class on time. If you are more than 10 minutes late, you will be counted absent. If you are marked absent because of tardiness, you must tell me at the end of that class so I can make the correction. That is the only time you can expect to have an absence erased from your record.
If you miss a class, you need to get notes and information about the class from a classmate.
Blackboard: The Blackboard system can be accessed online at http://loyno.blackboard.com. In the event of an evacuation, you will be required to check the system for announcements and responsible for all assignments posted therein.
EMail: You should check your LoyMail account daily for possible assignment and class updates.
Disability Services: If you have a disability that qualifies for accommodations, you should contact Sarah Mead Smith, Director of Disability Services, at 865‐2990 (Academic Resource Center, Room 405, Monroe Hall). If you need test accommodations (e.g. extended time), you need to let me know well in advance of a scheduled test and give me an official Accommodation Form from Disability Services.
Course Outline with due dates
Topic 1: The American Revolution
Jan. 12 Streitmatter, Ch. 1, Sowing the Seeds of Revolution
Serrin:
‐‐The John Peter Zenger case: The Truth Shall Make You Free, New York Weekly Journal, Aug. 18, 1735, pp 305‐306.
‐‐‐The Newport (Virginia) Mercury publishes the Virginia resolves and sets America on the course to independence,” pp 97‐99.
‐‐Isaiah Thomas Reports the Battles at Lexington and Concord, and the American Revolution Begins, Massachusetts Spy, May 3, 1775, pp 261‐264.
‐‐“Sunshine Soldiers and Summer Patriots”: Thomas Paine Helps Form a Nation, Jan. 10, 1776. “American Crisis” by Thomas Paine, pp 264‐269.
Topic 2: A Democratic Press and Abolition
Jan. 17 ‐‐ Oral Report: Horace Greeley
Lorman A. Ratner and Dwight L. Teeter, Jr., Fanatics and Fireeaters: Newspapers and the Coming of the Civil War, Ch. 1: “The Emergence of a Democratic Press” (e‐ reserve)
Jan. 19 – Oral Reports: Frederick Douglass, Cassius Marcellus Clay
Streitmatter, Ch 2, Abolition
James Brewer Stewart, Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery, Ch 2 and 3. (e‐reserve)
Serrin:
‐‐William Lloyd Garrison Announces Publication of Abolitionist Paper and Says “I Will Be Heard,” The Liberator, 1831, pp 173‐174.
‐‐Illinois Editor Elijah Lovejoy Attacks Slavery and is Shot to Death, pp. 175‐176.
‐‐The Most Respected Black Man in America Demands that Slavery Must End and Says Blacks Must Serve in Union Army, June 2, 1854, October 1862, April 1863, pp. 177‐179.
Topic 3: Women’s Suffrage
Jan. 24‐‐Oral Reports: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Fuller
Streitmatter, Ch 3, Slowing the Momentum for Women’s Rights
James Gordon Bennett, “Woman’s Rights Convention” (e‐reserve)
Women's Suffrage ‐ Teaching American History amhist.ist.unomaha.edu/module_files/Womens%20Suffrage.ppt http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=woman's+suffrage&ie=UT F‐8&oe=UTF‐ 8#q=women's+suffrage&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvnsb&ei=tgoHT_‐ FHOuLsAKkzZiRCg&start=50&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=8eeef67bd8d a93e5&biw=1440&bih=627
Serrin:
‐‐A Meeting is Called, and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage Begins, Seneca County Courier, July 14, 1848, pp. 83‐84.
‐‐Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Revolution Saves a Woman Accused of Infanticide from the Gallows, The Revolution, 1869, pp. 85‐86.
Topic 4: The Power of the Image
Jan. 26‐‐Oral Report: Mathew Brady
A Civil War Sketch Artist: Alfred Waugh: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm041.html
Selected Civil War Photographs, The Library of Congress: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
Jan 31 Streitmatter, Ch 4, Attacking Municipal Corruption: The Tweed Ring
“The World of Thomas Nast” : http://cartoons.osu.edu/nast/keller_web.htm
Cartoonist Thomas Nast vs. Candidate Horace Greeley: The Election of 1872 in Harper’s Weekly: http://nastandgreeley.harpweek.com/default.asp
Feb. 2 Jacob Riis: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/davis/photography/riis/reporter.html
Jacob Riis photographs: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma01/davis/photography/images/riisphotos/slidesho w1.html
Serrin: ‐‐Jacob Riis Tells How the Other Half Lives, Scribner’s, 1890, pp 1‐3.
Topic 5: Yellow Journalism
Feb. 7 Oral Report: Richard Harding Davis, Annie Laurie
Streitmatter, Ch 5: Journalism as Warmonger: The Spanish‐American War
“The Yellow Kid on the Paper Stage”: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma04/wood/ykid/yellowkid.htm
Serrin:
‐‐Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper Attacks the Swill Milk That Was Killing New York Children, Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, May 8, 1858, pp. 47‐50.
‐‐The San Francisco Examiner Has a Reporter Jump Overboard to Bring Harbor Ferry Safety. San Francisco Examiner, Sept. 2, 1888. pp. 50‐52.
‐‐Nellie Bly Spends Ten Harrowing Days in a Madhouse, New York World, Oct 6, 1887, pp. 142‐146.
Topic 6: Muckraking
Feb. 9 Oral Report: Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens
Streitmatter, Ch 6, Muckraking: The Golden Age of Reform Journalism
Serrin:
‐‐McClure’s Magazine Tells How Young Women are Turned to Prostitution, McClure’s, Nov. 1909, pp. 7‐9.
‐‐A Muckraking Magazine Reveals the Truth Behind Patent Medicines, Collier’s, Nov. 4, 1905, pp. 309‐315.
‐‐Helen Hunt Jackson Writs in Defense of Native Americans When Few Others Care, A Century of Dishonor, 1885, pp. 139‐142.
‐‐Lincoln Steffans Exposes the Shame of a City, McClure’s, Jan 1903, pp. 146‐150.
‐‐Muckraker Ida M. Tarbell Takes on John D Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company. McClure’s, 1904, pp.151‐ 154. ‐‐Muckraker David Graham Phillips Tells How the U.S. Senate Has Been Bought by the Monied Interests. Cosmopolitan, March 1906. pp. 105‐109.
‐‐The New Republic Takes Up Margaret Sanger’s Crusade for Birth Control, New Republic, March 6, 1915, pp 86‐89
‐‐William G Shepherd of the United Press Describes the Horrors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, United Press, May 27, 1911, pp. 29‐31.
Feb. 14 – Child Labor in America, 1908‐1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/about.htm
Hine photographs: http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
Serrin:
‐‐Edwin Markham Writes of the Horrors of Child Labor, Cosmopolitan, Sept. 1906, pp. 4‐6
Feb. 16 – Open
Feb. 28‐‐Midterm
Topic 7: The Power of the Media
March 1 ‐‐ Oral Report: Ida B. Wells
Streitmatter, Ch 7: Defying the Ku Klux Klan
Serrin:
‐‐Ida B. Wells Attacks Lynchings. Southern Horrors, Lynch Law in all its Phases, 1892, pp. 179‐182.
‐‐A Report on a Race Riot in Illinois Brings Founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” The Independent, Sept. 1908, pp. 182‐183.
‐‐Condemning the “Rope and Faggot” of the South, the Chicago Defender Helps Create the Great Migration,” Chicago Defender, Oct. 7, 1916, pp 185‐188.
‐‐The New York World Unveils the New Ku Klux Klan. New York World, Sept 6, 1921, pp. 188‐191.
March 6 Oral Report: H. L. Mencken
Streitmatter, Ch 8: Father Coughlin: Fomenting Anti‐Semitism on the Radio
Maryland State Archives, “Americans Listening: Huey Long and Father Coughlin”: http://teachingamericanhistorymd.net/000001/000000/000140/html/t140.html
FDR’s Fireside Chat on Banking: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/mediaplay.php?id=14540&admin=32
William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America, Ch 5: “The Central Media” (e‐reserve)
Topic 8: The Great Depression
March 8 Oral reports: Henry Luce, Gordon Parks
William Stott, Documentary Expression and Thirties America, Ch 6: “The New Deal” (e‐reserve)
Farm Security Administration: Documenting America: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fadocamer.html
Serrin:
‐‐John Steinbeck Introduces America to the Plight of California Migrants. San Francisco News, Oct. 1936, pp. 9‐12.
Topic 9: Covering War: Homefront, Battlefront
March 13 Oral report: Lee Miller
Streitmatter: Ch 9,” Creating ‘Rosie the Riveter’: Propelling the American Woman into the Workforce”
Margaret Bourke ‐White’s photographs of women workers during World War II: http://bulldogvintage.com/2009/01/09/the‐many‐faces‐of‐rosie‐the‐riveter‐1941‐ 1945/
March 15 Oral reports: Martha Gellhorn, William Shirer
Reporting the War: Robert Capa, Ernie Pyle: http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/capa/ http://www.pbs.org/weta/reportingamericaatwar/reporters/pyle/ http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html
Pearl Harbor announcement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xEWvIn‐ YNc&feature=related
William Shirer: From Berlin 3 days before invasion, From Berlin and the French Surrender: http://www.otr.com/shirer.shtml
Marguerite Higgins: http://www.newseum.org/warstories/technology/korean_higgins.swf
Serrin:
‐‐The Holocaust Exposed: “Under the Axis, Jewish Frontier, Nov. 1942, pp 283‐286.
‐‐“33,000 Dachau Captives Freed by 7th Army,” by Marguerite Higgins, New York Herald Tribune, May 1, 1945, pp. 287‐288.
Topic 10: Broadcast News
March 20 Book test: Bob Edwards, Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
March 22 Streitmatter, Ch 10: Exposing Joe McCarthy: Television’s Finest Hour
Topic 11: The Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement
March 27 Oral Report: Ralph McGill
Streitmatter, Ch 11, Pushing the Civil Rights Movement Onto the National Agenda “Charles Moore, Photographer of the Civil Rights Movement, Dies at 79,” http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/03/charles_moore.html
Serrin:
‐‐John Howard Griffin Makes Himself Black to Experience Being a Negro in the South. Sepia, April – Sept. 1960, pp 192‐195.
‐‐A White Southern Editor Stands Up for Justice in Racist South. Lexington (Mississippi) Advertiser. June 13, 1963, pp. 195‐196.
‐‐The Detroit Free Press Reveals Needless Killings in 1967 Race Riot. Detroit Free Press. Sept. 3, 1967., pp. 196‐200.
March 29 Oral report: Gloria Steinem
Serrin:
‐‐Betty Friedan Writes of Limited Roles for Women and Begins a Revolution. The Feminine Mystique, 1963, pp. 89‐92.
‐‐A New Kind of Women’s Magazine Brings the Karen Silkwood Story to the Public, Ms, April 1975, pp. 92‐96.
The first issue of Ms: http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feministtexts/tp/ms_magazine_first_issue.ht m
Topic 12: Vietnam
April 10 Oral report: Walter Cronkite
Streitmatter Ch. 12, Vietnam War
April 12—Oral Report: Larry Burrows
Liam Kennedy, “Photojournalism and the Vietnam War” http://www.ucd.ie/photoconflict/histories/vietnamwarphotojournalism/
“The Vietnam War through Eddie Adams’ Lens”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102112403
Ron Steinman, “Inside Television’s First War,” The Digital Journalist: http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0304/rsteinman.html Serrin:
‐‐As Helicopters Round Up a Handful of Vietcong Soldiers, David Halberstam Sees An “Endless, Relentless War.” The Making of a Quagmire by David Halberstam, New York: Random House, 1965.
‐‐Seymour Hersh and the Dispatch News Service Reveal the Killings at My Lai and Another Tragedy of the Vietnam War. “Officer Accused of 109 Deaths,” by Seymour Hersh. Dispatch News Service, Nov. 3, 1969.
April 17 David Halberstam. The Powers That Be, Ch 22. (e‐reserve)
Serrin:
‐‐The New York Times Publishes the Pentagon Papers and Explains a War,” New York Times, June 13, 1971, pp. 296‐301.
Topic 13: Watergate
April 19 Book test: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, All the President’s Men
April 24 Streitmatter, Ch 13, Watergate Forces The President to His Knees
April 26 Streitmatter, Ch 17, How the News Media Have Shaped American History
May 3 Paper due
May 8, 24 pm, FINAL Exam