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News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. E14-633 <http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14> In the 2012 presidential campaign, a handful of media outlets deployed "fact-checking" divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? Speakers <http://www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates/#bio> Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle <http://www.randomhouse.com/book/29064/the-beautiful-struggle-by-ta-nehisi-c oates> . Mark McKinnon <http://www.hkstrategies.com/company/leadership/mark-mckinnon-0> is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies, an international communications consultancy, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels <http://www.nolabels.org/> . As a political advisor, he has worked for many causes, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush and late former Texas Governor Ann Richards. Moderator: Seth Mnookin <http://sethmnookin.com/bio/> is the co-director of MIT's Graduate Program in Science Writing and author, most recently, of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy <http://sethmnookin.com/the-panic-virus/> . He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. All forums are free and open to the public. More information: http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/ ---------------------------------- Brad Seawell MIT Communications Forum MIT 14N-430 77 Mass. Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 617.253.3521
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