November 22, 2004

The Media And The Iraq War To Be Assessed At UCSD Nov. 30

By Barry Jagoda

News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. Participants will include a top journalism educator, a leading television national security producer and a highly respected newspaper editorial director. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held at The Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus.

The panel will consist of Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, a highly regarded author and press critic; Michael Mosettig, senior producer for defense and foreign policy at the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and a veteran print and broadcast journalist; and Robert A. Kittle, editorial page editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune, a former U.S. News and World Report Washington correspondent and a regular commentator for NPR and PBS.

Moderator of the program will be Miles Kahler, Rohr Professor of International Relations at UCSD, and Director of the Institute for International, Comparative & Area Studies, the event sponsor. In previewing the discussion, Kahler said, “From very different perspectives, these expert panelists will address the many controversial questions surrounding coverage of Iraq by the U. S. media. As the war continues, the topic of this panel becomes even more important."

For further information, or more detailed directions, please contact Leslie Kamps, (858) 822-5297.

Media Contact, Barry Jagoda, (858) 534-8567