Lies, fraud, and corruption

WK 5 23 Feb

Read/watch for next week

Ed Bradley, "Unhealthy Diagnosis," 60 Minutes, 2003

Matt Stieb, "Here's Every Single Lie Told by George Santos," New York Magazine, 2/21/23

Neela Banejee, Lisa Son, David Hasemyer, "Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuel's Role in Global Warming Decades Ago," Inside Climate News, 9/16/15

READ

Optional Audio: Dina Temple-Raston, "Spotting Lies: Listen, Don't Look," NPR Morning Edition, 2009

LISTEN

Lecture / Q&A

What is fraud? What is corruption? Three kinds of lies. The power of the direct question. Using silence.

WK 5 Detail

PITCHES

How do you make sure you have a solid central question?
Next week you'll submit one new pitch and one revised pitch

WORKSHOP

Testing ChatGPS: how can AI be helpful—and how can it be harmful—as a research tool?
Writing tutorial: naming names, exposing perpetrators, and changing passive sentences to active

HOMEWORK

Read/watch assigned materials for next week
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