[Sci-tech-public] Communications Forum Next Week: "The Press in Modern Political Campaigns, " on Thursday, April 11, 5-7 pm, in E14-633

[Brad Seawell]

 <http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/> 


News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns

Thursday, April 11, 2013
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
E14-633 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14>  

In the 2012 presidential campaign, a handful of media outlets deployed
"fact-checking" 
divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates.  Some
commentators 
have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print
and 
broadcast coverage, much of which seems more like entertainment than news.
This 
forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S.  Is
our political 
journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging
technologies and the 
proliferation of news sources mean for the future? 

Speakers

 <http://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/#bio> Ta-Nehisi Coates is a
senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, 
and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of
the 
memoir The Beautiful Struggle
<http://www.randomhouse.com/book/29064/the-beautiful-struggle-by-ta-nehisi-c
oates> .

Mark McKinnon
<http://www.hkstrategies.com/company/leadership/mark-mckinnon-0>  is a
senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies, an international
communications 
consultancy, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London
Telegraph, and is a 
co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels <http://www.nolabels.org/> . As
a political advisor, he has worked for many 
causes, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush
and late former 
Texas Governor Ann Richards.

Moderator: Seth Mnookin <http://sethmnookin.com/bio/>  is the co-director of
MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing 
and author, most recently, of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the
Vaccine-Autism Controversy <http://sethmnookin.com/the-panic-virus/> . 
He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. 

All forums are free and open to the public.

 

More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/

 

 

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Brad Seawell
MIT Communications Forum
MIT 14N-430
77 Mass. Ave.

Cambridge, MA 02139

617.253.3521

 

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