Audience and Media Effects

Review from last time:

•  Soliciting tips and leaks
• NYT tip site

Muckraking

Example:  Spotlight (see September 4 class)

... and hitting home.

Cautionary tales of investigative journalism.  The Hatfill mistake (Graber 195).  Compare to the Richard Jewell mistake:

Dan Rather screws up on Bush documents (Graber)



Ethics of Undercover Journalism (Graber 217-218)

Fact-Checking

• Politifact
• Factcheck.org
• Washington Post Fact Checker
• Snopes
• Truth be Told
• NPR Fact-Check
• Daniel Dale on POTUS: first at Toronto Star, then CNN, and on Twitter (example from today)

Framing

Gun control --- and rights of persons with developmental disabilities

Taking rights from people with mental illness will not address this country's epidemic of gun violence. https://t.co/xmDsnNLj1n

— Ari Ne'eman (@aneeman) October 3, 2017

The Issue-Attention Cycle (Graber 206-212)