[Sci-tech-public] Fwd: [Hum-fac] Election 2004 and Beyond: Did the Media Fail? Communications Forum on Thursday, February 17, 5-7 PM, Bartos Theater

[Deborah Fairchild]

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>Terence Smith, PBS
>Cathy Young, BOSTON GLOBE
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>ELECTION 2004 AND BEYOND: DID THE MEDIA FAIL?
>
>Thursday, February 17, 2005
>5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
>Bartos Theater
>MIT Media Lab
>20 Ames Street
>Cambridge, MA
>
>A report card on both new and old media's coverage of the election and its 
>aftermath.
>Were the print media more accurate and nuanced than the electronic media 
>in reporting
>on the candidates and framing the central questions facing the country? 
>What was the
>impact of the Internet and the emerging blogosphere? Has media coverage of 
>the president
>and his foreign and domestic policies changed since his re-election? Are 
>American news
>sources, particularly TV networks, fulfilling the role envisioned in the 
>constitution for media
>in a democracy?
>
>Speakers
>
>Terence Smith joined The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer in August 1998 to 
>establish the media
>unit as its senior producer and correspondent. Smith and his unit are 
>four-time winners of the
>Arthur C. Rowse Award for Media Criticism, given by the National Press 
>Club. Prior to joining
>PBS, Smith spent 20 years as a national and foreign correspondent and 
>editor with the
>New York Times and 13 years with CBS News.
>
>Cathy Young is a columnist for the Boston Globe, and a columnist and 
>contributing editor for
>Reason magazine. Her articles have appeared in a variety of publications, 
>including the New York
>Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Born in Moscow, 
>she has lived in the
>United States since 1980. She is the author of two books: Growing Up in 
>Moscow: Memories of
>a Soviet Girlhood (1989) and Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces 
>to Achieve
>True Equality (1999).
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