Reporting on terrorism: the news media and public health - a Fred Friendly seminar
How should the news media prepare for and cope with a potential bioterrorist attack? In this Fred Friendly Seminar, Professor Michael Dorf of the Columbia University School of Law and 12 panelists role-play a hypothetical scenario that begins in a c...
Truth or fiction?: photography and ethics
Photographs have the potential to present powerful truths - or to create convincing fictions. This program uses case studies involving Iwo Jima, Elian Gonzalez, and O. J. Simpson to show how images can be manipulated to influence the way viewers per...
Media hype: when news coverage goes too far
The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports that during the 1990s the homicide rate in the U.S. dropped 50 percent, yet homicide news coverage increased by an incredible 700 percent. In this program, the Center’s Bob Lichter and the Threat Ass...