Panel Discussion on the Media and Iraq War Set for Nov. 30

By Barry Jagoda I November 29, 2004

News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion to be held at UCSD 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.

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.

Miles Kahler, Rohr Professor of International Relations and director of the Institute for International, Comparative & Area Studies at UCSD, will serve as program moderator. "From very different perspectives, these expert panelists will address the many controversial questions surrounding coverage of Iraq by the U. S. media," Kahler said. As the war continues, the topic of this panel becomes even more important."

The event is free and open to the public.