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Oct 1—Continue Business and the
News
Journalism's
New Bottom Line
[Link
might not work unless you first open
Academic One File through the library
databases. Even then, it still doesn't
work for me. Even when I search with
the author's name (Bugeja) and it shows
me the link to the article in AOF, it
still won't let me read the article.
I am filled with hate.]
Google
Making News a Business [Watch
the Video]
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Oct 3—Wrap up Business and the News/Begin
Reality TV
Balancing Bottom Lines and Headlines
Reality
for 'The Hills' Comes Heavily Scripted
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Oct 4—Blog due 5pm [Choose
one!]:
If reality
TV is the "he said, she said" equivalent
of "Professional" Wrestling,
then what does the genre offer? Define
spectacle as a postmodern event
and what psychological or social needs
spectacle fulfills particularly through
the genre (or genres) of reality TV.
If
all arguments are presented to a specific
audience, and reality TV is trying to convince
its audience of something, who is the audience
and what is it trying to convince them
of? Does it depend on the premise of each
show, or is there also a message being
delivered across the genre?
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Oct 5—Class Cancelled
