"Turning a Blind Eye" Table of Contents:

I. INTRODUCTION
II. DISCIPLINES AND STANDARDS
III. RECOGNIZING BIAS IN THE NEWS
IV. HOLODOMOR: The world turns its back on an inconvenient horror

• Background:
Timeline: General early 20th c. Russian and Soviet history
Timeline: Ukraine and the Holodomor: Ukraine famine of 1932-1933.
Map: Ukraine & surrounding affected area during the Holodomor
Kuryliw: The Famine/Genocide in Ukraine
U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine: Summary of Findings.
B. Holodomor and Journalism documents
Overview article: Mace: The American Press and the Ukraine Famine
Background notes and notes to the articles
Selection of original articles:
• Image of Gareth Jones article in the New York Evening Post, March 29,1933.
• Duranty: Russians Hungry.
• Jones: Mr. Jones Replies
• Chamberlin: The Ukrainian Famine. (with response by Louis Fischer)
• British Foreign Office document

V. CHINA’S GREAT LEAP FORWARD FAMINE: Did Mao learn from Stalin?
Overview article: Mishra: Staying Power
Notes to the Chinese famine articles
Selections of original articles:
• Hunger and Cold Menace Red China
• Nevard: Briton sees China Making Progress
• Snow: Facts about Food
• Priority for China? Editorial

VI. DARFUR AND THE MEDIA’S STRUGGLE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Notes to the Darfur articles
Selection of articles:
• Bacon: Hiding Death in Darfur
• El Fegiery and Ziyada: Salaam Darfur
• Swaffield: What we do can change a country

VII. CHALLENGES FOR PRESENTING AND GETTING THE NEWS IN TODAY’S WORLD
Notes to the Media Today articles
Selection of articles:
• Diamond: Liberation technology
• Page: China co-opts social media
• Kristof: Viral Video, Vicious Warlord

VIII. SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES, PROJECTS, AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE UNIT
IX. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES