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The Global Media & The War On Terrorism |
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by ML (from hastily scrawled class notes) (No verified email address) |
15 Oct 2001
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Wed., Oct 17
7:30pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois St., Urbana |
The parameters of our understanding are to a considerable extent formed by the media sources we rely on for our information.
What perspectives dominate in mainstream US media coverage of the war and can we overcome inadequacies in our primary news sources?
Wed., Oct 17
7:30pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois St., Urbana
A panel and open discussion with these faculty members:
Bob McChesney, Institute for Communications Research,
on the US media
Suvir Kaul, English,
on India and Pakistan
Marilyn Booth, Comparative Literature,
on the Arab Middle East
Diane Koenker, Historian,
on Russia and the former USSR |