Videos:

• CNBC. 2010. Rick Santelli's rant. Feb 19, CNBC (this was at the beginning of the housing / ecnomic crisis)
• CBS News. 2010. Rising Tea Party Movement.
• John Dickerson. 2010. Unplugged: The Tea Party Movement. Feb 8, CBS News. (first 6-7 minutes)
• Taki Oldham. 2010. Billionaire's Tea Party (excerpt on Youtube---watch from 39:50 to 52:00)
• Democracy Now. 2011. We are the 99%: Voices of Occupy Wall Street. Oct 6.
• Fox News. 2011. Anti Wall Street protests spreading across the US (Sean Hannity)
• PBS excerpt on OWS
• Jon Stewart. 2011. Parks and demonstration . Oct 5, The Daily Show.

Readings:

• Ryan Chittum. 2009. Santelli's 'Tea Party' illustrates press failure. Feb 20, Columbia Journalism Review.
• Naomi Wolf. 2011. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy. Nov 25, The Guardian. Online at www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy
• Rich Lowry. 2011. The Left’s pathetic Tea Party. Oct 4, National Review. Online at www.nationalreview.com/articles/279057/left-s-pathetic-tea-party-rich-lowry

Assignment: 150 to 200 - word abstract (an abstract is basically a summary with some analysis)

Some things to think about: Press coverage--are sources chosen to take the story in a certain direction? Organization--are the rallies (or what we see of them) organized in different fashions? What about the trappings--the staging, the symbols used, the kinds of photo opportunities, references to America? The movements themselves--differences in the kinds of protesters shown, the places they choose to gather, etc.? Law enforcement--different responses?

The routine:

1. Put the citations for the articles you read.
2. Briefly summarize the articles (1-2 sentences for each).
3. Relate the articles to the class (why do you think we're reading them?)
4. Basically, I want you to show me that: 1) you read the articles, and; 2) you got something out of them. One way to think of it might be responding to the question, 'what did he want us to get out of this?' Or 'how does it relate to the topic for the week?'

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