Project Censored Media Accountability Conference to highlight great investigative reporting Oct 26-27
Thom Hartmann, Jeremy Scahill and a host of investigative journalists will be at Sonoma State University for Project Censoreds annual Media Accountability Conference and Awards Ceremony, October 26 and 27, 2007. Friday evening, October 26, features journalists Jeremy Scahill, Robert Parry, Frank Morales and Mike Whitney discussing the medias lack of response to recent erosions of our civil liberties. Throughout the day on Saturday, October 27, panelists will present and discuss some of the great investigative reports featured in the Censored 2008 Top 25 under-covered stories of the year (see web site for details). Project Censoreds popular Top 25 AWARDS CEREMONY will take place during a buffet-style luncheon on Saturday. The luncheon is free for paid conference attendees and tickets will also be available at the door. The conference concludes Saturday afternoon with a closing keynote by radio host Thom Hartmann. The topic will be Holding Media Accountable: How We Recognize Censorship in the Modern Era. While this years Best of the Censored list includes the work of such journalistic notables as Thom Hartmann, Robert Parry, Jeremy Scahill and Greg Palast it also honors the work of those dedicated yet unsung researchers who simply have, as last-years awardee Jason Leopold tells us, a passion for uncovering the truth. To register for the Media Accountability Conference, or to learn more about it and the presenters, please visit the conference web page at www.projectcensored.org/conference or call 707-664-3160. ------------------------ MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY CONFERENCE FRIDAY SCHEDULE October 26, 2007 4:00 - 5:00 PM - REGISTRATION Ives Hall 5:00 - 7:00 PM - Author Reception Ives 119 7:00 - 9:00 PM - OPENING PANEL Warren Auditorium (Ives 101) Defending Our Civil Liberties Journalists Frank Morales, Robert Parry, Jeremy Scahill and Mike Whitney discuss the media's apparent lack of concern over our eroding civil liberties SATURDAY SCHEDULE October 27, 2007 8:00 -9:00 AM - Registration & Check in Ives Hall 9:00 -10:15 AM - SESSION 1 Panel 1A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101) Exploitation in the Service of Neocolonialism Censored #5: David Phinney "Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy" Censored #11: Fariba Nawa "Afghanistan Inc: a CorpWatch Investigative Report" Censored #23: Peter Byrne "Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict" Panel 1B - Ives 119 Moving Toward Martial Law and an Expanding Police State Censored #2: Frank Morales "Bush Moves Toward Martial Law" Censored #6: Mike Whitney "Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State" Censored #7: Jeremy Scahill "Blackwater Inc and Bush's Undeclared Surge" 10:30 - 11:45 AM SESSION 2 Panel 2A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101) Hidden Agendas Along the US/Mexico Border Censored #9: Jerome Corsi "Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway" Censored #18: Joshua Holland "Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico" Censored #18: Nina Armand & Luciente Zamora (for Revolution Collective) "Mexico: The Political Volcano Rumbles" Panel 2B - Ives 119 Little Known Environmental and Animal Rights Policies Censored #15: Tim Montague (for Peter Montague) "Some Chemicals are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected" Censored #17: Sunny Lewis "Factories, Cities Across USA Exceed Water Pollution Limits" Censored #20: Will Potter "US House Passes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act With Little Discussion or Dissent" Censored #20: Odette Wilkens "The AETA is Invidiously Detrimental to the Animal Rights Movement" 12:00 - 2:00 PM REAL NEWS AWARDS LUNCHEON Niagara Room -- Recreation Center 2:30 - 3:45 PM SESSION 3 Panel 3A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101) Terrorism and the New Legal Realities Censored #1: Robert Parry "Still No Habeas Rights for You" Censored #1: Thom Hartmann "Repeal the Military Commissions Act" Panel 3B - Ives 119 Media and Corruption Impact Military Policies Censored #12: Wadner Pierre "Haiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege " Censored #12: Kevin Pina "UN in Haiti: Accused of Second Massacre" Censored #24: Arash Norouzi "'Wiped Off The Map' - The Rumor of the Century" - 4:00 - 5:30 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE Warren Auditorium Holding Media Accountable: How do we Recognize Censorship in the Modern Era? 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