For today:
- 1ST MEDIA CRITIQUE DUE TODAY (submit on ANGEL)
- Dave Zirin, “Balls and Stripes,” UTNE Reader, July-August, 2011
- Michael Oriard, introduction to Brand NFL (on ANGEL and sent via email)
- In-class screening of Dave Zirin's More Than a Game
Keywords: nationalism, sports/media complex
For further reading & research:
- The official London 2012 branding guidelines: 'Using the Brand'
- Eshter Addley, "Olympics 2012: branding 'police' to protect sponsors' exclusive rights," The Guardian, April 13, 2012.
- More on the London 2012 branding guidelines.
- Dave Zirin and Zack Zill, "A History Lesson for the Redskins Owner," The Nation, Feb 9, 2011.
- Powerpoint (by Oregon educators) on Indian mascots in sports.
- 'Media and Mythology' (on Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch), via The Listening Post, Al Jazeera, May 4, 2007.
- Anderson Cooper apologies for complicity in media cover-up of Pat Tillman's death.
