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Use the quiz function to collect your short answers to the following close reading questions.

Icons - watercolor effect_Book.pngAssigned Reading

1. Ibsen, Henrik. An Enemy of the People (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (play) Gutenberg version. You may choose which format to read it in, but you must read the entire play.  

2. Whittle, Stephen. “Journalists as CitizensPreview the document.” British Journalism Review 15.4(2005): 54-57. (British, click on hyperlink, 4 pages)

3. Junes, RonNell Andersen and Lisa Grow Sun. “Enemy Construction and the Press.Preview the document” Utah Law Faculty Scholarship 17 http://dc.law.utah.edu/scholarship/17 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (60 pages–must read all. Click on hyperlink. It mentions President Trump, but also, Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, and Obama and their treatment of the press)

Questions

“Journalists as Citizens”

1.a  This article was written and published in England during the George W. Bush administration (2001-2008).  Question: Cut and paste a quote from the article that indicates one specific legal development involving journalists in the United States Stephen Whittle finds to be especially troubling.  GIVE THE PAGE #  (4 pts)

1.b Question: Explain how Whittle connects what is going on in the US to similar threats faced by British journalists. What larger principle about journalism does he fear is under attack? Be specific and include a quote to support your claim, indicating the PAGE # (6 pts)

“Journalists as Citizens”

2.a  Question: Cut and paste the statement in which Whittle explains the BBC’s decision on how to react to the Government’s use of the Terrorism Act against them for airing the interview with Abu Uzair and Abu Izzadeen on August 1, 2005? (4 pts)

2.b  Question: In 2 sentences, explain what YOU would have done if you were the head of the BBC news decision faced with a similar circumstances and explain WHY (the rationale) you would have acted that way. (6 pts)

“An Enemy of the People”

3. Consider the following exchange from Act 1 Scene 1 in the play which demonstrates the literary device we call foreshadowing (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.:

Hovstad, editor of the “People’s Messenger.”

Dr. Thomas Stockmann, Medical Officer of the Municipal Baths.

Peter Stockmann (the Doctor’s elder brother), Mayor of the

Town and Chief Constable, Chairman of the Baths’ Committee, etc.

Peter Stockmann. It looks very promising. Inquiries about apartments and that sort of thing are reaching us, every day.

Hovstad. Well, the doctor’s article will come in very suitably.

Peter Stockmann. Has he been writing something just lately?

Hovstad. This is something he wrote in the winter; a recommendation of the Baths—an account of the excellent sanitary conditions here. But I held the article over, temporarily.

Peter Stockmann. Ah,—some little difficulty about it, I suppose?

Hovstad. No, not at all; I thought it would be better to wait until the spring, because it is just at this time that people begin to think seriously about their summer quarters.

Peter Stockmann. Quite right; you were perfectly right, Mr. Hovstad.

Hovstad. Yes, Thomas is really indefatigable when it is a question of the Baths.

Peter Stockmann. Well remember, he is the Medical Officer to the Baths.

Question: Considering this exchange and no other information about the plot, explain whether you find Hovstad’s actions as editor of the newspaper, his decision to delay publication of Dr. Thomas Stockman’s article until Spring in order to promote tourism to the Baths, to be professionally defensible or not and WHY that is. (8 pts)

Include a direct quotation of at least one line from this scene of the play in support of your position. (2 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

4. Question:  According to Jones’ and Sun’s characterizations of German philosopher Carl Schmitt, what are the two “interrelated  powers” Schmitt claims the sovereign (or a nation’s highest ruler) has? Cite a page # where you found these in the text. (4 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

5. Question: List 3 specific acts carried out by the Trump campaign and/or administration that Jones and Sun include as examples of “rhetorical framing of the press” as an enemy? Include page #s of where you found these in the text. (6 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

6. Question: Find an example where Jones and Sun explain how the enemy construction of the press engages in an “us” vs “them” discussion where the press is listed as “other”. Paste that quote here and cite a page # where you found this in the text. (4 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

7.Question: Which president do Jones and Sun say prosecuted more journalists “than all previous presidents combined”? Cite a page # where you found this in the text. (2 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

8. Question: Which 20th century president comes closest to sharing president Trump’s dislike of the press according to Jones and Sun? Cite the page # where you found this in the text. (2 pts)

“Enemy Construction and the Press”

9. Question: How do Jones and Sun contrast and distinguish the way in which the answer to #8 and president Trump discuss the press differently in public? Cite the page # where you found this in the text. (2 pts)