HSOC-301A: American Politics & Media

This is a class for anyone who wants to know what the hell is going on. It's going to be a week by week examination of the work of Independent Journalists, Commentators, and Organizations whose efforts, insights and information are essential to finding your way to clarity and understanding of issues and events, here and everywhere else, sometimes urgent, sometimes absurd, and often unknown, ignored or misrepresented by the Corporate Mainstream Media and the politicized press. The Instructor will provide weekly reading and examples of techniques of misinformation, insinuation and manipulative innuendo. There will be a research paper, the first draft of which will be a preparatory midterm and the final draft will be the final paper and determine the final grade.