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DESCRIPTION:DANNY SCHECHTER  SPEAKS ON "THE MEDIA IN BED AT A TIME OF WAR"\n\n"The News 
 Dissector" analyzes biased war coverage at upcoming New College 
 address\n\n\n\nWHEN:  7:30pm on Monday, April 14, 2003\nWHERE:  New College 
 of California Theater, 777 Valencia Street (betw. 18th & 19th Sts.)\nin San 
 Francisco   \n\nWHO:  Danny Schechter, MediaChannel founder and executive 
 editor\n\nWHAT:  Free public lecture on "The Media in Bed at a Time of 
 War"\n \nBY WHOM:  The Media Studies Department of New College of 
 California\n\nFOCUS:  "Danny Schechter's message about the nature of 
 television news could not be more relevant as the Bush Administration 
 prosecutes an unpopular war.  As a college whose mission embraces the 
 pursuit of truth and the values of peace and social change, we are honored 
 to present Mr. Schechter in this critically important public lecture." 
 Martin Hamilton, President of New College of California \n\nCONTACT:  
 Michael Nolan, 415-282-9043 or mikeyno@earthlink.net\n\nDANNY  SCHECHTER is 
 founder and executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the worlds largest on 
 line media issues network. He is also a founder and Vice 
 President/Executive Producer of Globalvision, Inc., an award-winning media 
 company formed in l987. Mr. Schechter has been a broadcast and print 
 journalist and is an internationally recognized speaker and writer on media 
 issues. Mr. Schechter was a Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard 
 University and his work has been honored with, among other recognitions, 
 Emmy awards, the IRIS award, the George Polk Award, the Major Armstrong 
 Award, and honors from the National Association of Black Journalists. Mr. 
 Schechter was the news director and principal newscaster for WBCN-FM, an 
 on-air reporter for WGBH, and a news program producer and investigative 
 reporter at CNN and ABC. Mr. Schechter's print journalism has included 
 serving as the London editor for Ramparts magazine; his articles have 
 appeared in Newsday, Boston Globe, Columbia Journalism Review, Detroit Free 
 Press, Village Voice, Media Studies Journal, and Z Magazine, among others. 
 Mr. Schechter is the author of  Media Wars: News At a Time of Terror  
 (Rowman & Littlefield); "The More You Watch, The Less You Know"   (Seven 
 Stories Press) and "News Dissector: Passions, Pieces, and Polemics"    
 and(Electron Press).\n\nNEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA is an accredited private 
 institution of higher education, founded in 1971, and located in San 
 Francisco's Mission District.  The College offers degree programs in Law, 
 Teaching, Psychology, Poetics, Irish Studies, Ecology, Social Change and 
 Media Studies as well as a weekend BA degree completion program.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/18103.php
SUMMARY:DANNY SCHECHTER  SPEAKS ON "THE MEDIA IN BED AT A TIME OF WAR"
LOCATION:777 Valencia Street (@19th)\nNew College of California Theater
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/18103.php
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