COGR 220. The News Media (4 units)
Link to catalog page: https://catalog.ucsd.edu/courses/COMM.html#cogr220
Description
History, politics, social organization, and ideology of the American news media. Special attention will be paid to historical origins of journalism as a profession and “objective reporting” as ideology; empirical studies of print and TV journalism as social institutions; and news coverage of Vietnam and its implications for theories of the news media.
Prerequisite courses
COGR 220 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have COGR 220 as a prerequisite.