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FAIR's Past Monthly Media Talks
FAIR hosts monthly Media Talks at Judson Memorial Church in New York City, all of which are free and open to the public. Below is a listing of past events and speakers (talks before June 2003 were held at Housing Works Used Book Cafe). For information on future events, see our Upcoming Events page.
July 2003:
Anti-Immigrant Backlash After 9/11: Stories from NYC communities that aren't on big media's beat
Chandra Bhatnagar, Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund
Monami Maulik, DRUM (Desis Rising Up & Moving)
Rehan Ansari, Independent Press Association
June 2003:
"Partial Birth" Abortion & Reproductive Rights:
How media spin the debate
Louise Melling, Director, ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
February 2003:
The Big Picture on Iraq: What are media missing about the legality of war and the humanitarian impact?
Elisabeth Benjamin, New York Legal Aid Society, Health Law Unit
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
Dr. Victor W. Sidel, past president, Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
January 2003:
The Underreported Impact of Welfare "Reform"
Kathy Leichter, director of "A Day's Work, A Day's Pay"
Matt Pacenza, staff writer, City Limits
November 2002:
"Showdown" with Iraq? Media hype threat, miss human costs
Anthony Arnove, author of Iraq Under Siege
Frida Berrigan, World Policy Institute
September 2002:
A Quiet Loss of Liberty: 'Anti-terror' laws criminalize dissent, media miss story
Nancy Chang, Center for Constitutional Rights
Rachel Coen, FAIR
June 2002:
And Now, Our Glorious Leader: GW Bush, TV news & the dumbing of democracy
Mark Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon
May 2002:
U.S. Media Target Iraq: What's the truth about sanctions, war & international law?
Roger Normand, Center for Economic and Social Rights
March 2002:
WTC Pollution?: What are the real health risks, and why the media silence?
Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News & "Democracy Now!"
Alyssa Katz, City Limits
January 2002:
Palestine/Israel & the "War on Terror": Media coverage of the Mideast since Sept. 11
Chris Toensing, Middle East Report
November 2001:
A War on Terror?: Media miss full story on civilians & civil liberties
Laura Flanders, journalist
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
October 2001:
Media March to War: Coverage of the terrorist attacks & U.S. retaliation
Janine Jackson, FAIR
Rick MacArthur, Harper's Magazine
July 2001:
The Most Biased Name in News: Fox News Channel's extraordinary right-wing tilt
FAIR analysts Seth Ackerman, Peter Hart & Steve Rendall
May 2001:
CLIMATE CHANGE COVER-UP: Corporate media echo corporate line on global warming
Ross Gelbspan, former Boston Globe editor and author of The Heat Is On
April 2001:
Resisting the Lie: The Zapatistas, Media & Globalization
Greg Ruggiero, Autonomous Media Project
Rachel Coen, FAIR
with a video message from Subcommandante Marcos of the EZLN
March 2001:
The Global Gag Rule: Abortion, Free Speech & the Press
Katherine Hall Martinez, Center for Reproductive Law & Policy
Jennifer L. Pozner, FAIR
February 2001:
Fear & Favor: How Power Shapes the News
Janine Jackson, FAIR
Blake Fleetwood, freelance journalist & former New York Times reporter
Frances Cerra Whtitelsey, freelance journalist & former New York Times reporter
January 2001:
Hail to the Chief: The Media Crown Their King
Alexander Cockburn, editor of CounterPunch
Peter Hart, FAIR
December 2000:
Palestine, Israel & the U.S. Media
Yifat Susskind, MADRE
Seth Ackerman, FAIR
September 2000:
Election 2000: Corporate Media, Corporate Democracy
Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR
July 2000:
Taking Back the Airwaves: The FCC, Microradio & Media Monopolies
DJ Dizzy, free103point9
Jim Naureckas, FAIR
June 2000:
Challenging Hate Radio: Exposing Pundits & Politicos Who Cozy Up to On-Air Bigots
Steve Rendall, FAIR
Philip Nobile, Freelance journalist
May 2000:
Biotech Myths: Countering Corporate & Media Spin on Genetic Engineering
Michael Hansen, Ph.D, Consumers Union
Karen Charman, Investigative journalist
April 2000:
Police Violence: The Media's Misreporting of an American Human Rights Crisis
Stuart Adams, New York City PoliceWatch
John Hess, Commentator and former New York Times Reporter
March 2000:
Women's Media: Building Feminist Alternatives to Commercial Media
Angela Ards, Ms. Magazine
Mari Keiko Gonzalez, Dyke TV
Ophira Edut, WomanHood.com
Moderator: Jennifer L. Pozner, FAIR
February 2000:
Net Loss: A Discussion of Information Equity & How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of the Internet
Nancy Kranich, American Library Association
Frank Beacham, Journalist & technology critic
January 2000:
After the Battle in Seattle: A look back at media coverage of the WTO protests, & at what's next
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
David Murphy, Direct Action Network
Seth Ackerman, FAIR
December 1999:
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit
Neil DeMause & Joanna Cagan, journalists & co-authors of the book Field of Schemes
November 1999:
The Art of the Con: A notorious prankster uses hoaxes to expose the media
Joey Skaggs, media hoaxer
October 1999:
Colombia & the U.S Media: Myth-Making & the Drug War
Mario Murillo, host of "Our Americas"
July 1999:
Al Gore & the Politics of Pharmaceutical Profits Over AIDS Care
Bob Lederer, journalist
June 1999:
The Phantom Menace: Space Weapons Aren't on Media Radar
Karl Grossman, journalist
May 1999:
NATO/Balkan Media Coverage
Laura Flanders, journalist
Jim Naureckas, FAIR
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
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