EXTRA CREDIT OPTIONS –
For extra credit in this course, you may choose one option from each of the following categories.
Category I: Write a book report (maximum 14 points)
You may choose one of the following books:
1. Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
2. Kids Gone Wild by Joel Best & Kathleen Bogle
3. The Outrage Industry: Political Opinion Media and the New Incivility by Jeffrey M. Berry & Sarah Sobieraj.
4. Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism by Thomas E. Patterson .
5. Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism by Lucas Graves Dog.
6. Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney Lopez
To get full credit read the entire book, then write a paper no longer than one page, EXPLORING TWO THEMES that the book deals with. Use examples from throughout the book in your writing.
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