Posted: February 4th, 2015
Mass Communication Assignment
Paper, Order, or Assignment Requirements
Mass Communications Extra Credit Assignment
Due Date: Wednesday, December 3. No late papers.
Choose one of the following:
- Acquire, carefully read and compare issues of Time Magazine and The Week for the same week or the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times for the same day.
- What stories are common to both?
- Are there differences or biases in the way the two magazines cover the same story?
- What stories are not in common?
- Analyze and compare the advertising in each magazine.
- How do the two publications compare in terms of editorial philosophy and intent?
- View one hour of the Fox News Sean Hannity show and compare to the Rachael Madow show on MSNBC for the same day.
- Compare the stories they cover.
- Compare the graphics, pace of presentation and other format issues.
- Is there evidence of bias in either broadcast? How does it manifest itself?
- Compare a conservative and liberal leaning news website. Go to Huffington Post : liberal leaning (huffingtonpost.com) and the Drudge Report: conservative (drudgereport.com)
- What stories are common to both?
- Choose two stories that are common to both and analyze how they differ.
- Characterize the stories that are not common to both.
- Compare the graphic layout and treatment.
- Compare the advertisers
- Oscar season is just beginning. Choose one of the likely nominated films, view it and answer the questions below
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Birdman
- Interstellar
- Saint Vincent
- Gone Girl
- Give a brief plot description
- What is it about this film that has made or will make it succeed or fail?
- Who is the target audience for the film? And what makes you think so?
- Is the film original or is it a recycled concept? Is it well done or poorly done? Make the argument for your point of view.