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Portfolio assignment

Portfolio assignment. The “Writing University” 2-pages, dbl.-spaced. Note: This is not a course evaluation. It is a self-evaluation of your active participation in learning about journalism history, studentship, and your personal educational goals.

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Portfolio assignment

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  1. Portfolio assignment • The “Writing University” • 2-pages, dbl.-spaced. • Note: This is not a course evaluation. It is a self-evaluation of your active participation in learning about journalism history, studentship,and your personal educational goals. • Grading based on completeness of your draft. • Turn in: 1 page (typed) table of contents. 1-2 page (typed) reflection.

  2. Your reflection should address the following questions: 1. In completing the historical interview and critical essay assignments, what challenges did you face regarding your writing development? Conversely, what successes did you experience? 2. How have the assignments for this course helped you develop your research skills? Cite at least one of the elements of your portfolio as an example of your personal development. 3. Overall, after looking through your portfolio, how would you assess your understanding of journalism history?

  3. General outline I. Time-line II. Concepts A. Terms B. Critiquing the “domino effect of public opinion” C. A revisionist result for the press in wartime III. Television and documentary footage IV. Trajectory chart

  4. Time-line • 1968, Jan. — Tet offensive • 1968, Feb. 1 — execution by Col. Loan • 1975, April — Saigon captured by N. Vietnamese

  5. II. Concepts A. Terms Containment Doctrine “Five o’clock follies” Revisionism

  6. B. Critiquing the “domino effect of public opinion” and television news “The magic bullet theory” (causality)

  7. McClure & Patterson • Social science approach • Scientific method • “agenda-setting” • Newspapers, not television, were salient” (important; meaningful)

  8. C. A revisionist result for the press in wartime: The increasing military policy of restricting journalists’ access to war zones. • assumption of causality • the adversarial relationship between the press and government

  9. III. Television and documentary footage “Vietnam—A television history”

  10. To watch for and think about: • How much or whether the television news footage and voice-overs present the information necessary to frame every image • or whether you are making sense of the images based on emotional reactions or intuition.

  11. Trajectory • Perspective: The U.S. government and military • Outsiders? —The mainstream media (Fourth Estate) • Goal for change? —Control over the frame of war • Mainstream press’s ideological base? • Mainstream; willing to investigate beyond official sources. • Outcome? A trend of wartime censorship developed to the present; heightening of the adversarial relationship with the Fourth Estate

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