TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Background/
Introduction/
Standards


Key Quotes 

Objectives/
Preparing Students


Critical Inquiry

Media Literacy

Teaching Suggestion
(NCSS)

Links to Other
Lesson Plans

Links to Candidates
Websites/Streams


NEW
Ad Watch Columns
(evaluating spots 
for accuracy)


Past Campaign Ads


In The News
(news stories to read/access/download)
 

Links to Campaign/Election
news resources


Election sites for
Teachers and students


Web Resources

Recommended Texts

Recommended
Videos
 
 
 


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Role of Media in Elections: 
Helping Students Understand Media's Influence

by Frank Baker, media educator
(Workshops available; contact me)

©2004

                                            Web Resources
                              (links to more resources)


Access Learning (Feb. 2004 issue)  Judy Woodruff: Inside PoliticsThe Youth VoteElection Connections (tips for using election web resources)

Ad War '04 (New York Magazine)

Alliance for Better Campaigns     What You Need to Know About Political Advertising (pdf)

All About Political Ads (Moveon.org)

The Buying of the President 2004: Center for Public Integrity

Campaign Ad Air Wars (PBS Newshour MediaWatch segment)

Campaign$ For Sale: A Newsroom Guide to Political Advertising 

Democracy in Action: Race for the White House 2008

Democracy Project 2000 (PBS) Political Ads Teacher Guide

Disconnected: Politics, The Press and the Public (PBS)

Disinfopedia: U.S. presidential election, 2004: Campaign Ads

Election 2004
: The Evolution of Campaign Ads (PBS)

FactCheck.org (Annenberg Political Fact Sheet) 

527 Ads (GWU website)   2003-2004 527 Ad Spending

History of Presidential Elections (website listing) 

The Internet & The Electorate

Issue Advertising (2006)

Media, Advertising, and the 1984 Presidential Election: Manufacturing Ronald Reagan's Image

Media For Democracy 2004

Media: Covering the Campaign (GWU)

The Media's Role in Political Campaigns (ERIC) 

Other Political Advertising Links
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/pol_ads.html

Political Cartoons on 2004 Pres. Campaign Advertising

Political Communication Lab (Stanford University)

Politics on TV (Jan-Feb newsletter) 

Presidential Campaign Rhetoric 2004


Presidential Image Making
(PBS American Photography)

Television as a Campaign Television Medium
http://www.tlc.utexas.edu/courses/2000f_321/election2000/television.htm


Wisconsin Advertising Project  (Pol Ads In the 2002 Elections)

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