Class Schedule 2/8 -- 2/15

Manufacturing Consent: A Propaganda Model of the Media
(Tuesday 2/6, Thursday 2/8)
Reading:
Jowett & O’Donnell, Chapter 1: “What is Propaganda . . .”
Chomsky & Herman, Chapter One of Manufacturing Consent

Republic or Empire? Yellow Journalism & Our War with Spain.
(Tuesday 2/13, Thursday, 2/15)
Readings:
(Tu. 2/13): Primary Documents, “Imperialism & the Spanish American War,”
(Th. 2/15): Albert Beveridge, “March of the Flag,” 1898.
William McKinley, “Emancipators not Masters,” 1898.
William Jennings Bryan, “Imperialism,” 1898).
Carl Schurz, “Imperialism Hostile to Liberty,” 1899.
Booker T. Washington, “The Better Part,” 1898.
Terrey Ramsaye, “Blackton, Smith and Rock,” 1925.