Journalism Issues

Class/Team:

Here is a revision of our book list for this fall. IMPORTANT: Different
books will be assigned to different class/team members. No one will have
to read more than three books in total this fall. I ordered all of these
books into the campus bookstore last week, so they should be there in a
few days. You may save a buck or two ordered from Amazon, but the shipping
may eat up the difference.

None of these are "textbooks" with the possible exception of No. 5. I
think you'll find them easy reading, but stimulating in terms of the
issues they present -- much food for classroom conversation!

-- bill densmore, 458-8001

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BOOKS WHICH EVERYONE SHOULD BUY (OR SHARE):
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REFERENCE (no assigned reading):

1. Elements of Style, Fourth Edition, by by William Strunk Jr., E.B.
White, Roger Angell Paperback: 105 pages, $6.85 on Amazon Publisher:
Longman (January 15, 2000) ISBN: 020530902X 9 COPIES

2. AP Stylebook, Goldstein Paperback: 420 pages , $12.21 on Amazon
Publisher: Basic Books (July 1, 2004) ISBN: 0465004881 9 COPIES

REQUIRED READING (we'll read much of these, so its probably worth having
your own copy, but feel free to share):

3. The Problem of the Media, Robert W. McChesney Paperback: 352 pages --
$11.53 on Amazon Publisher: Monthly Review Press (March 1, 2004) ISBN:
1583671056 8 COPIES

4. We the Media, by Dan Gillmor -- $15.95 on Amazon Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly; 1 edition (August, 2004) ISBN: 0596007337 8 COPIES

5. "The Elements of Journalism : What Newspeople Should Know and The
Public Should Expect," by Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel, $10.36 on Amazon.
Paperback: 208 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press (December, 2001) ISBN:
060980691 9 COPIES

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THE BOOKS BELOW WILL BE SPLIT BETWEEN TWO SUB-TEAMS:
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How media usage and form is changing . . .
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6. "Tuned Out: Why Americans Under 40 Don't Follow the News," by David
T.Z. Mindich. Paperback: 172 pages, $17.00 Publisher: Oxford University
Press (March 1, 2005) ISBN: 0195161416 5 COPIES

7. "Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution," by Howard Rheingold
Paperback: 288 pages, $10.88 on amazon Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint
edition (October 1, 2003) ISBN: 0738208612 5 COPIES

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Use of new media by politicians . . . .
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8. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the
Overthrow of Everything," by Joe Trippi
Publisher: Regan Books (July 1, 2004), 272 pages, $16.98 on Amazon
ISBN: 0060761555
5 COPIES

9. "America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media
to Take Power," by Richard Viguerie Hardcover: 384 pages , $16.98 on
Amazon. Publisher: Bonus Books (August, 2004) ISBN: 1566252520 5 COPIES

THE BOOKS BELOW WILL BE SELECTIVELY ASSIGNED TO INDIVIDUALS. WE'LL SORT
THIS OUT ON TUES., SEPT. 13:

10. Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, the Business of News, and the
Danger to Us All, by Tom Fenton ReganBooks; ISBN: 0060797460; On Sale:
03/01/2005; Format: Hardcover; Subformat: ; Pages: 272; $25.95 2 COPIES

11. Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the
Commercialization of the Internet, by Bettina Fabos, New York, Teachers
College Press, ISBN 0-8077-4474-3 (paper). , 2004. 2 COPIES

12. "News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and Its Threat to
Democracy", by Elliot D. Cohen, Hardcover: 319 pages, $26.00 Publisher:
Prometheus Books (February 1, 2005) ISBN: 1591022320 2 COPIES

13. "Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy," by
James M. Fallows. New York: Pantheon, 1997. ISBN: 0-679-75856-9 2 COPIES

14. Media Big Bang, Challenge and Change in the Media World (Paperback)
by Sangbok Lee Tackwhan Kim (Author) Publisher: Communication Books (2005)
Language: English ISBN: 8984995681 2 COPIES

15. "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free
Press," by Kristina Borjesson (Editor) Hardcover: 392 pages, $16.38 on
Amazon Publisher: Prometheus Books (March 1, 2002) ISBN: 1573929727 2
COPIES

16. "The New Rulers of the World," by John Pilger Paperback: 192 pages,
$9.75 on Amazon Publisher: Verso (April, 2003) Language: English ISBN:
185984412X 1 COPY

17. "Within the Veil: Black Journalists, White Media," by Pamela Newkirk
Paperback: 240 pages , $20 on Amazon Publisher: New York University Press
(September 1, 2002) ISBN: 0814758002 1 COPY

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