Sumários
News features. Human interest stories.
27 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
The week in review: two students' oral presentations. News features: analysing two newspaper articles on the same topic - "Reclaim our streets: hoodies and baddies" and "Under that hoodie is a child like yours". A human interest story: "Supergran unmasked ..." (Mail Online).
Second Text on Censorship from the anthology
26 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott
Analysis of second text on censorship. 1735 case in New York Colony establishing "truth as an absolute defense to libel". Discussion of whether government should be allowed to censor certain aspects of the press and how it should be allowed to monitor communications.
Journalese. British popular press.
22 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
The week in review: a student's oral presentation. Examples of journalese, the language regarded as characteristic of the popular media. The British popular press: (a) "Migrant 'cockroaches' and the need to tame tabloid hate", Open Democracy (TEXT 19); (b) "Stop the press: Rupert Murdoch, the Leveson Inquiry, and press freedom in the UK", Nieman Reports (TEXT 20). HOMEWORK: pp.23-26 (Analysing newspaper articles).
Censorship Article 1
21 Outubro 2015, 12:00 • David Alan Prescott
Presentation of first text on the definition of and application of censorship of "obscene" works as understood in United States law. Analysis of the famous Miller v California case (1973). Discussion of reaction by Gore Vidal in publishing Myron using names of Supreme Court judges instead of "bad" words. Explanation of the television evening watershed idea over "profanities". Explanation of the verb "to freak" and its adjectival applications in order to avoid using common "offensive vocabulary. All this will lead to a possible future work on linguistic censorship and its contradictions.
Direct leads vs delayed leads. "The Popular Press".
20 Outubro 2015, 10:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
The week in review: a student's oral presentation. Analysing direct leads and delayed leads in British tabloids and quality papers continued. Reading and discussion of TEXT 6: "The Popular Press" (The Economist).