Read a report from Pew Research: http://people-press.org/report/559/
Watch the documentary Outfoxed
http://vimeo.com/24935369 (We will view this in class on Wednesday).
Watch this video on the tenth anniversary of Outfoxed:
Tilting at the Right, Leaning to the Left: Robert Greenwald’s ‘Outfoxed’ Has Its Own Slant on Balance
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 11, 2004; Page D01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41604-2004Jul10.html
How to Make a Guerrilla Documentary
By ROBERT S. BOYNTON (NYT) 2885 words
Published: July 11, 2004
http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F60E12F73F5F0C728DDDAE0894DC404482
Then read:
Journalism Should Own Its Liberalism And then manage it, challenge it, and account for it By Thomas Edsall
http://www.cjr.org/campaign_desk/journalism_should_own_its_libe.php
This article cites a study on Media bias from UCLA
You can read about it at:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx
The actual study is available here:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/polisci/faculty/groseclose/Media.Bias.8.htm
Finally there is a critique of the study here:
http://mediamatters.org/research/200512220003
You may also want to view a collection of links on media ownership at:
http://www.corporations.org/media/
After going over these sources discuss the significance of media bias in agenda setting (you may want to see the section of your text dealing with this issue). Discuss the role of media bias and the impact you think it has on the political climate.
(You will note that Mr. Murdoch and his “journalistic” enterprises have come under quite a bit of public scrutiny in the past few years with a Parliamentary investigation in the UK resulting in possible criminal charges.)