DANNY SCHECHTER SPEAKS ON "THE MEDIA IN BED AT A TIME OF WAR"

DANNY SCHECHTER SPEAKS ON "THE MEDIA IN BED AT A TIME OF WAR" "The News Dissector" analyzes biased war coverage at upcoming New College address WHEN: 7:30pm on Monday, April 14, 2003 WHERE: New College of California Theater, 777 Valencia Street (betw. 18th & 19th Sts.) in San Francisco WHO: Danny Schechter, MediaChannel founder and executive editor WHAT: Free public lecture on "The Media in Bed at a Time of War" BY WHOM: The Media Studies Department of New College of California FOCUS: "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 CONTACT: Michael Nolan, 415-282-9043 or mikeyno@earthlink.net DANNY 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). NEW 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.