Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities Symposium: Political Reporting
“No News Is Bad News: The Role of the Media in Our Democracy” was the title of a daylong symposium presented by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, hosted by Boston College. Panelists for the second session, on the topic of political reporting, were Alan Brinkley of Columbia University; Joseph Lockhart, former White House press secretary; Todd Purdum, a writer for Vanity Fair and author of A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War In Iraq (Times Books, 2003); and Marcy Wheeler, a citizen journalist and author of The Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy (Vaster Books, 2007).
Presenter(s): Alan Brinkley, Joseph Lockhart, Todd Purdum, Marcy Wheeler
Date: November 17, 2007
Location: Robsham Theater
Sponsor(s): Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities
URL: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/nonews2/
The information on this page is accurate as of November 2007