Welcome to Ask Dr. Ted—Table of Contents

Ask Dr. Ted’s Index

As stuff gets added to this archive, I will try to categorize it here to make files easier to find, cross-referencing to the titles of each posting. All titles are hot links.

Newswriting (JCOM 1130)
JCOM 1130 Syllabus F2009
Stories 1-4
The Inverted Pyramid
QUIZ: Wk 3
Opener: Steven Colbert—Yes, Virginia, I expect you to think!
JCOM 1130—Week One Interview
AP Style Starters
What Is News?
A Newswriting Primer
The Fred Rule: Focusing Your Story
Leads, Quotes & Nut Grafs, Oh My!
More on Leads
Leads: Chancellor & Mears
Speeches—Gartner
More on Nut Grafs
Bill Blundell’s Story Blocks
Handout: Interviewing Lecture
About Interviewing—Quotes & Clips
The Art of the Interview from NPR
More on Interviewing: What we can learn from Mike Wallace (1918-2012)
Journalistic Principles
Ethics: Photo Manipulation
Essay: On Objectivity
The Parable of Michelangelo’s David

Introduction to Mass Comm (JCOM 1500)
QuizArchive Sp2010

Media Smarts (JCOM 2010)
SYLLABUS: JCOM 2010—Media Smarts (F09)
QuizArchive Sp2010
Get BULL! How to purchase the 2010 online text
Opener: Steven Colbert—Yes, Virginia, I expect you to THINK!
Reading 1: Making Sense of the Information Age
Media Myths Quiz—The Answers
Lecture: Media Literacy Overview
Reading: Some Principles of Media Literacy
Billy Joel: History in Song and Photos
McLuhan’s Media-Smart Fish
Martians & Media Literacy
Reading: Mass Communication Theories
Examples of “Truthiness”
Essay: On Objectivity
Project #2: Cartoons, Movies or Kids

Newswriting Lectures/Handouts
Syllabus: JCOM 1130—Newswriting (Online S09)
Syllabus: JCOM 1130(2)—Newswriting (S09)
NewsHounds Profile Form
Handout: AP Style Starters
What Is News?
News Attitude Survey
Handout: Interviewing tips
Interviewing Skills
The Art of the Interview—Video Clips
Handout: Leads, Quotes and Nut Grafs, Oh My!
Handout: More on Ledes
Reading: Chancellor&Mears on Leads
Handout: The Fred Rule—WWWWWH
Handout: Writing News—A Primer
Resources: More on Nut Grafs
Nine Journalistic Principles
Shorts: Week6
WallyAccident: Week6
Midterm Exam—Fixt
Story Idea: Bottled Water?
The Final 2 BIG Stories—Feature/Profile & Issue

Columns
Anita Hill & Clarence Thomas Came to Our Wedding
Dear Students: Some Advice for a New School Year
The Dumbing of America
E.B. White—Some Pig!
End-of-Semester Straight Talk
Ethics 101
Ethics 101-Part 2
EXTRA! Books Are Dead!
Goodbye, Old Friend: Eddie the Lesser
Halloweinies
A Final WORD (1999)
Martians & Media Literacy
McLuhan’s Fish
Old Dog Gone
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 1999
Oxymoron—Journalism Ethics?
Palin Mis-Mediated?
Press Performance
Pulitzers—The Best of the Press
Teachable Moments
TV & the ‘Virtual Childhood’
Watching Media

Fun Stuff
Accidental Language
Lost in Translation
The Morbid Language of Newspapering
News IQ Test
Random Thoughts on Free Expression (and other oddities)
Thoughts on Pets

News Writing Exercises
Writing Leads 1

HONR 1340—Media Smarts (F08) (in the order students will need them)
Syllabus: HONR 1340 Smarts F08
The Text: Journalism Ethics Goes to the Movies (review)
Chapter: Media Smarts—Making Sense of the Information Age
Lecture: Media Literacy
Handout: Some Principles of Media Literacy
Selected Quotes on Mass Media
Handout: Mass Communication Theories
Smarties Profile Form
Example: ProfPeezProfile
Column: Marshall McLuhan’s Fish
Column: Alana Taylor’s Critique of “Old Media”
Video: 50 Years of History in Music and Photos
Chapter: Oxymoron—Journalism Ethics?
Column: Ethics 101
Column: Ethics 101—Part 2
Column: Press Performance
Essay: On Objectivity
Media & Campaign ’08 URLs
News IQ Test
Chapter: Hollywood & Free Expression
Censoring Movies: More on the Hays Code
Editorial Cartoons: Campaign 2008
Critical Analysis Essays
Campaign ’08—Media Coverage Varies, Study Finds
Making Sense of Political Claims
Film Project: Film & History
Film Project: Presentation Outline
Film Project: Team Evaluation
Readings: Film & Society
Film Project Teams (F08)
Kate Reeve’s Research Tips
Gatekeeping—A Prop 8 Case Study
Column: End-of-Semester Straight Talk
FINAL EXAM prep

Research/Writings
Freedom of Expression & Civil Rights—An Historical Overview
On Objectivity
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Intro
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 2
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 3
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 4
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 5
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 6
Pease: Still the Invisible People: Ch 7
Pease: Still the Invisible People, Ch 8
Pease et al.: News & Race Models of Excellence Project
Pease: “Larry King—Father of ‘Talk Show Democracy’”

Dr. Ted’s CV/Bio
Pease Curriculum Vitae
Pease Bio