“Critical Issues in Journalism” is the introductory course in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. My lectures during spring semester 2011 were videotaped and are online at:
Lecture 1: Everyone’s teaching has a politics, 23:13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOwhPh3fzek&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLD8036D04678A9771
Lecture 2: Everyone is political, 28:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IHRa8CPHQM&feature=relmfu
Lecture 3: Morality and our place in the world, 12:38
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQIT-EteBA
Lecture 4: Confronting the pain of world, challenging our affluence, 9:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6PX-nlCASc
Lecture 5: How to think about democracy, journalism, and the world, 22:01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AA-kc0dqI
Lecture 6: Democracy: popular v. managerial I, 26:41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7-upVGsv0I
Lecture 7: Democracy: popular v. managerial II, 18:41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmw4KjlEFg
Lecture 8: Rhetorical constructions: greatest nation, national interest, 28:14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RvblbDuyEI
Lecture 9: Rhetorical constructions: anti-American, 12:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNV59ygU4AE
Lecture 10: Politics and economics, 13:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu15tFYTKNM
Lecture 11: Capitalism and inequality, 24:18
(Lecture 11a, 14:41; Lecture 11b, 9:47)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTj_5rRSG0
Lecture 12: Economic realities: Imperialism and fossil fuels, 14:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNdgukUOdcA
Lecture 13: Capitalism: Defining and assessing, 16:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAfAcx9Y-P8
Lecture 14: Identities: Personal and political, 12:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsOx6hQIAXo
Lecture 15: Democracy: Defining and assessing, 19:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-THUHpqnRm0
Lecture 16: American exceptionalism, 17:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXN7CYAvuBw
Lecture 17: Avoiding false alternatives in politics, 20:15
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q9jEUaLDvY
Lecture 18: Review of Dahl, On Democracy, 18:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIzpbffAp6s
Lecture 19: Political anger and democratic conversation, 13:02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyKkVEgKT8
Lecture 20: The state of journalism, 11:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9DGOlhY4Vo
Lecture 21: What are journalists for? 26:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3So5F6vJqJI
Lecture 22: Justice and sustainability, 7:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAqfSKn-tko
Lecture 23: What should we expect from journalists? What forces shape journalism? 10:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glx27VWsKO8
Lecture 24: Institutional structures, 17:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ate4z5fZSWo
Lecture 25: Neutrality in language I, 14:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAcd26co-KY
Lecture 26: Neutrality in language II, 14:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLEPWxXBYek
Lecture 27: Overcoming neutrality, 12:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCXLNsdnoK8
Lecture 28: Journalists and ideology, 13:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmgvwINVog
Lecture 29: Ideology: sociological, 11:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqIDnO93cao
Lecture 30: Ideology: critical, 14:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenOjTp35iI
Lecture 31: American fundamentalisms: introduction, 10:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIld6fEdN3k
Lecture 32: American fundamentalisms: economic, 17:25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3bbQYWvTkE
Lecture 33: American fundamentalisms: technological I, 10:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XATn3ZEz-3w
Lecture 34: American fundamentalisms: technological II, 25:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaBbd5Cs6w
Lecture 35: The silly problems of mainstream news, 9:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmJb-IwJV64
Lecture 36: The serious limits of mainstream politics, 9:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNrbtEHKTdw
Lecture 37: Epistemology, 36:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc75YUOOsyo
Lecture 38: Facts, 21:56
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87t8rSrAulY
Lecture 39: Ignorance, 11:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNH6HV70Fc
Lecture 40: The facts rock, 12:48
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db0FqAI_lz4
Lecture 41: Objectivity: definitions, 14:32
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni6cwaUnJY8
Lecture 42: Journalistic objectivity: official sources, 41:24
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgoqMJ01dh4
Lecture 43: Adversarial press? 19:26
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp8ByIBy3Qo
Lecture 44: Who wants to be a journalist? an intellectual? 14:50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQizoxXQ2M0
Lecture 45: What is an intellectual? 13:34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raRWSjoMhU
Lecture 46: Critical intellectual journalists, 11:41
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9TNSHf5zXQ
Lecture 47: The journalism of P. Sainath, 10:03
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Intp4IUphPo
Lecture 48: The journalism of John Pilger I, 14:51
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUwunGpt5Ak
Lecture 49: The journalism of John Pilger II, 14:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgIPhEFehE
Lecture 50: The journalism of John Pilger III, 18:44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlFpfdKp1kA
Lecture 51: Journalistic independence, 14:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDjs_3m5_sg
Lecture 52: Prophetic journalism, 14:57
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEa5smOtKbw
Lecture 53: Pilger’s prophetic journalism, 13:37
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDP7tw1em3k
Lecture 54: Journalism and social change, 15:00
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvk9RWW_NNE
Lecture 55: The future of journalism, 9:34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfrO2EFGxH4
Lecture 56: Which side are you on? 14:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC-GgWXvAqc
DOCUMENTARY FILMS:
“A Tribe of His Own: The Journalism of P. Sainath”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCKA2NRzGDw
“Nero’s Guests: The Age of Inequality”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XaVvG9rgU
“War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8383084962209910782#
“Toxic Sludge Is Good For You: The Public Relations Industry Unspun”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3579911499802972602#
“The War You Don’t See”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ah20IAyYxg