The Media Accountability Conference and Real News Awards November 3-4 at Sonoma State University
Celebrating Project Censored’s 30-year Anniversary and the release of the Censored 2007 yearbook Featured presenters include: • Comedian Will Durst & Real News Awards Party with Music by Blane Lyon & the Real Saturday: 6:30 PM includes dinner and no host beer and wine St. Elizabeth Auditorium, 4594 Synder Lane, Rohnert Park, CA Free to Conference Attendees: Separate admission ($20 regular $15 students/low-income) • Stephen E. Jones Physicist and founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth Did the Building 7 at the World Trade Center Fall from Fires? Friday Evening: 7:00 PM Cooperage at SSU. Free to Conference Attendees: Separate admission ($15 regular $10 students/low-income) Honored journalists and panelists presenting at the Friday Nov. 3 and Saturday Nov. 4 conference Elliott D. Cohen (Buzzflash.com) Jason Leopold (Truthout.com) Julia Whitty (Mother Jones) Dahr Jamail (TomPaine.com) Abid Aslam (Oneworld.net) Jeff Ruch (PEER.org) Daniela Estrada (Inter-Press Service) Nat Parry (The Consortium) Peter Dale Scott And many others…See Program Below Sonoma State University Friday and Saturday November 3 & 4, 2006 $70 ($50 for students) Secure credit card phone line: 707-664-3166 Register online at www.projectcensored.org/conference For more information contact: Kate Sims 707-664-3160 [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Friday Nov. 3 1:00 - 3:00 PM REGISTRATION 3:30 – 5:30 PM Session 1A Regulating Information: The challenges to independent media Elliott D. Cohen, Jason Leopold 7:00 - 9:00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS DR. STEVEN E JONES Physicist & Co-founder, Scholars for 9-11 Truth Saturday, Nov. 4 8:00 -9:00 AM REGISTRATION & CHECK IN 9:00 -10:35 AM Session 2A Health & Welfare: Why the public needs a consumer watchdog Brendan Coyne, Eileen Sullivan Session 2B Militarizing the Homeland: Who is watching the military-industrial complex? Peter Dale Scott, Isaac Baker, Nat Parry 10:50- 12:25 PM Session 3A Water wars: Rich countries move to control the last of the aquifers Conn Hallinan, Abid Aslam Session 3B Government leaders: The disappearance of accountability Jeff Ruch, Greg Palast 12:30 – 2:00 PM Lunch Session Keynote - TBA 2:05 – 3:40 PM Session 4A Environmental issues: Honest analysis or political agenda? Julia Whitty, David Adam Session 4B Corporate misdeeds and conflicts of interest at highest levels Jason Leopold, Jeff Ruch 3:55 – 5:30 PM Session 5A Global economy: Capitalism vs. Neocolonialism Keith Harmon Snow, Sprocket, Rayan Elamine Session 5B Suppression of information from post-911 invasions Dahr Jamail, Jeff Pflueger, Dennis Bernstein 6:00 – 8:00 PM →REAL NEWS RECEPTION & AWARDS 8:00 - 9:00 PM →PERFORMANCE BY WILL DURST 9:00 PM - - > →MUSIC AND GENERAL CAROUSING Speakers and schedules subject to change NEWS RELEASE: WILL DURST WRAPS UP MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY CONFERENCE Renowned media research group Project Censored is hosting the first annual Media Accountability Conference to mark its 30th release of the Top Under-covered news stories of the year. The conference takes place Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2006, on the Sonoma State University campus. “I have long been persuaded that the news media collectively will be sent to hell not for our sins of commission, but our sins of omission,” says columnist Molly Ivins. “Happily,” she continues, “the perfect news peg, as we say in the biz, for Media Accountability Day already exists—it’s Project Censored’s annual release.” Investigative journalists and researchers are gathering from around the country to present important, well-documented stories that the mainstream failed to cover and to discuss the current media system – what is covered, what isn’t covered, and why. Steven E. Jones will present the Keynote address Friday night, November 3. Dr. Jones is a physicist from Brigham Young University who helped co-found Scholars for 9-11 Truth, an organization which advocates for a more critical and thorough analysis of the events that took place on that day. Despite increasing controversy and external pressure, Dr. Jones continues to bring forward information and raise difficult questions about the 9-11 tragedy. His keynote will cover the current data coming out about the fall of towers #1, 2, and 7. He will discuss the filtering of such information; which stories receive some mainstream coverage and which do not. Conference panels cover a host of hidden stories: from the water crisis that everyone but the U.S. now recognizes, to the well-known government contractor that recently (and illegally) sold nuclear materials to Iran. Topics addressed include internet control and the control of information, growing domestic militarization, the impact of the global economy on our daily lives, conflicts of interest at all levels of government, and more. The conference ends Saturday night with the Real News Awards, honoring the researchers who work so well to unearth the important but hidden news stories, followed by a performance by comedian Will Durst. Mr. Durst, a commentator on current events, appears often on television and currently co-hosts the Will and Willie Show on Air America. Music, food, and a no-host bar will also be featured throughout the evening. To find out more about the conference schedule, panels, presenters, or the stories, visit the conference website at www.projectcensored.org/conference or call the Project Censored conference line at 707-664-3160. 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