Journalism Week 7 ESSAY 250 words
How did Chavez and boycott organizers strategize to use TV news coverage to gain attention for their movement and do you think the movement would have had the same impact w/o media coverage? Refer to Chapter 2 in your essay.
DISCUSSION – 200 words
People were upset about this and this (same story) . . . WHY? Perhaps these types of opinions stem from some of the historic media coverage we looked at above
Week 8
ESSAY 250 words
Again, many mainstream newspapers helped foment national hatred and fear against Japanese Americans during WW2 or wrote rather light-hearted stories about the evacuations, like this one . How did camp newspapers show a different view of life in the camps. Do you think they were censored and did that come across in some of the news? Lastly, did the resistance of Omura and Korematsu expose you to another perspective of the treatment of these citizens during the war . . . HOW?
