2/10 Reading History
-Attendance
-Ben’s posters got taken, Wayne saved them, we now have an archive!
-Egypt
- Ahmed: military stepping in, Mubarak most likely stepping down
- Ben: military becoming instrument of change
- Most news coming from Associated Press, same articles throughout country
-Grades for blog posts, difficultations, protocols, etc.
-Blog assignment: tea party. Find primary sources, etc. Other housekeeping stuff…
-Letters to our mothers
-With a partner, editing and peer reviewing
-Ahmed read his aloud for the class
-Content terrific, how can it be communicated to a specific person better?
-Sophie read her email aloud for the class
-Make sure that writing is tied to theory from the class
-Dinah Shore interviews the writer of “Network”
-Dinah Shore loves the movie!
-“How to preserve yourself in a world that doesn’t really live anymore”
-Went out to make a great movie, not exactly to prove a point
-Dehumanization, and addressing this within the movie
-Dinah Shore tries hard to be funny
-Deals with how the news operation is manipulated
-Only responsibility is to stockholders, only about money
-Television has power that transcends anything else in the world today
-“Execution of the Week”
-When is human life more important than the dollar?
-Discussion of interview
-Brittney: Hegelian in the sense that it only puts in the “important stuff”, edited
-Martika: TV is just watched for entertainment, why watch it if its boring?
-Ben: “Non-agentive conspiracy” (Chomsky), media monopolization
-Garbage can model of organizational thinking
-It’s not a rational linear thinking that brings about an event, it is a building of ideas over a period of time
-“The Origins of the Final Solution” (Browning)
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