Wednesday, Dec 05, 2007

TTT#23-10-O'clock News

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DEC. 5: THE LOCAL MEDIA CRISIS: How the 10 O’clock News has Distracted Us from Citizenship

TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with local media observers about the damage broadcast and print media have done to drive citizens away from news and knowledge of their communities and governments, creating instead a consumer culture of celebrity and distraction instead of civic affairs. On the street and in-café interviews with news consumers conducted by KFAI intern Sonia Sultan GUESTS: VIVIAN JENKINS NELSEN: President/CEO of The Inter-Race Institute; JANE KIRTLEY, Silha Professor of Media Ethics and Law at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law; GARY GILSON, former Executive Director, Minnesota News Council, former host of tpt news/public affairs shows and more.

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