COMM 317: For Friday's class [no class Monday]

Read about Marketplace of Ideas analogy in Wikipedia. Especially U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' 1919 dissent in Abrams v. United States [250 U.S. 616]:

... when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.

Also: In Patterson and Wilkins, "Media Ethics," read Case 5-D "The New York Times Sudan 'Advertorial': Blood Money or Marketplace of Ideas?" (138-43).

Notes from class Wednesday:

Advocacy --

When you work with people and businesses to get everybody on the same page regarding an issue -- Lobbying works with government, advocacy works w/ society, public

Persuade, influence and raise public awareness and action about organizations, issues -

Marketplace of ideas

Please notice this assignment hasn't gone away: We're still going to do something with media critic Neil Postman's 1969 speech titled "Bullshit and the Art of Crap-Detection" to the National Council of Teachers of English. Postman, who died in 2003, was a pretty insightful media critic.