About
This Course |
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"(The
Iowa caucus) begins the weeding process and starts, really,
that dialogue of the issues that are important. … What
people throughout America are thinking
about, not necessarily those issues that are being talked about in Washington,
not necessarily
those issues that are being talked about on the West Coast, but those that are
hitting
home with American voters."
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Susan
Ramsey, Greater Des Moines Partnership
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"Some
cynics believe that politicians always lie. Still, the frequency
with
which they choose to do so
and succeed when they do is in part a function of the vigilance
with which reporters discover facts, sort the relevant from the
meaningless,
and hold those in public life to standards of truthfulness. When
reporters carry out those tasks, politicians and those who seek
to influence them are deterred from straying from the truth, and
informed
decision making on the part of the public becomes more likely.” |
| Kathleen
Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman, The
Press Effect |
This course is offered by the School
of Journalism and Mass Communication
at the University
of Iowa
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