Sing along with Pappy

I'm going to be taking the following Summer School course at SOU starting next week:

The Politics of Mass Media

Examines the impact of politics on the development of mass media and the influence of mass media on political development. Offers a critical analysis of historic and contemporary American mass media treatment of political actors and events in the U.S. and around the world. Topics include partisan, ideological, and corporate biases in the press; the political relevance of “entertainment” programming; the development of “investigative reporting;” and the emergence of Web-based political publications as challengers to the dominance of traditional electronic and print media.

Should be interesting and the course curriculum is going to be on a web page. (I'll let you know if it's available.) If it proves to be worthwhile, I'll keep an updated post here as to progress....