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TRAGEDY AND FARCE: HOW THE AMERICAN MEDIA SELL WARS, SPIN ELECTIONS, AND DESTROY DEMOCRACY

Journalist John Nichols (The Nation) and award winning author and media critic Robert W. McChesney lay out one of the broadest and most hard-hitting media critiques out there today, using the previous election and the war in Iraq as case studies.

Nichols and McChesney chart the precipitous fall in standards for political and international reportage in the US, document the disastrous consequences of embedded news, and report on the burgeoning, and inspiring, media reform movement in the US.

Robert McChesney, professor at the University of Illinois, has written or edited eight books, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy and, with John Nichols, Our Media, Not Theirs. John Nichols is The Nation's Washington correspondent and an editor at the Capital Times. He is the author of The Rise and Rise of Richard B. Cheney and Jews For Buchanan.

Co-sponsored by The Media Studies and Film Department at The New School, The New Press, The Nation magazine, and Free Press.

Monday, December 5, 8pm
Free admission. Reservations required. 212 229-5488 or boxoffice@newschool.edu.
Theresa Lang Center, The New School, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd Floor (between 5th and 6th Avenues)

Starts12/05/2005
Ends12/05/2005
IssuesInternational, Media, Politics/Government, U.S./Foreign Relations, Censorship, Fair Representation, Media Literacy
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Posted on November 17, 2005 in Event / Call to action by omlaura