Students will hear how the nation’s leading reporters and media figures who covered Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign offer a candid critique of their role in the former president’s rise to power.
Journalism and the Role of the Press
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Lesson Plan: McCarthyism – Populism and the Press
Students will learn how Joseph McCarthy rode to power on a wave of anti-communist fears, and how television contributed to both his rise and fall.
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Lesson Plan: Challenges to World Press Freedom
Nelson Rauda is a journalist in El Salvador. Rauda discusses how President Nayib Bukele is restricting press freedom and the implications of these restrictions for the government and civil society in El Salvador. In this lesson, students will study the meaning of press freedom, compare press freedoms in various countries across the globe, and draw their own opinions about the importance of press freedom.
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Lesson Plan: Presidents v. Press – How the Pentagon Papers Leak Set Up First Amendment Showdowns
Students will learn about the Pentagon Papers during Nixon’s presidency, the long history of U.S. presidents battling national security leaks and the role of a free press in America’s democracy.
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Lesson Plan: Citizen Nation: How the Media Shaped the Narrative of Civil Rights and Disobedience
Students will analyze how photos and videos of the civil rights movement affected public perception.
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Who Gets to Regulate #*%& Free Speech in Popular Culture?
Offended by lyrics they deemed too sexual and violent, Tipper Gore and Susan Baker campaigned to put warning labels on albums in 1985. Years later, warning labels have ended up in some unexpected places.
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Presidents v. Press: How the Pentagon Papers Leak Set Up First Amendment Showdowns
Efforts to clamp down on White House leaks to the press follow a pattern that was set during the Nixon era after the publication of the Pentagon Papers.
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In El Salvador, a Journalist Faces New Limits. ‘We Want to Continue Shedding Light.’
Nelson Rauda, an independent journalist, told us that El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, is putting the squeeze on press freedom.
