Two links for future discussion

An article about Michelle Obama's speech:
http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=149495

An article about (non)diversity and the NY advertising establishment:
http://adage.com/bigtent/post?article_id=128219

A link about summer movies

It would be great to meet for a movie this semester, so be thinking of fall releases and be ready to recommend something. We'll talk about popular entertainment more at the semester's end, but for now, here's PBS commentary for you:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93995425

Welcome to the course

I'm looking forward to thinking about news media, strategic and digital communications, and entertainment media in our class this fall. We'll be following the presidential election and media coverage of the major candidates, through the lenses of race, gender, sexualities and other issues. We'll start that conversation with discussion of editorial cartoonists and their strategies for representing the candidates.

Throughout the semester, please check here at least once a week for helpful links and assignments. Also, we'll have additional discussion here, too, about issues that were introduced in class.

And at the end of the semester, we'll have our usual media smorgasbord, where you bring your media favorites for fun
and scrutiny.