[Project-Censored-L] Project Censored Media Accountability Conference highlights great investigative reporting
 
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:21:47 -0500 (CDT)

Project Censored Media Accountability Conference to highlight great
investigative reporting Oct 26-27

Thom Hartmann, Jeremy Scahill and a host of investigative journalists
will be at Sonoma State University for Project Censoreds annual
Media Accountability Conference and Awards Ceremony, October 26 and
27, 2007.

Friday evening, October 26, features journalists Jeremy Scahill,
Robert Parry, Frank Morales and Mike Whitney discussing the medias
lack of response to recent erosions of our civil liberties.

Throughout the day on Saturday, October 27, panelists will present
and discuss some of the great investigative reports featured in the
Censored 2008 Top 25 under-covered stories of the year (see web site
for details).

Project Censoreds popular Top 25 AWARDS CEREMONY will take place
during a buffet-style luncheon on Saturday. The luncheon is free for
paid conference attendees and tickets will also be available at the
door.

The conference concludes Saturday afternoon with a closing keynote by
radio host Thom Hartmann. The topic will be Holding Media
Accountable: How We Recognize Censorship in the Modern Era.

While this years Best of the Censored list includes the work of such
journalistic notables as Thom Hartmann, Robert Parry, Jeremy Scahill
and Greg Palast  it also honors the work of those dedicated yet
unsung researchers who simply have, as last-years awardee Jason
Leopold tells us, a passion for uncovering the truth.

To register for the Media Accountability Conference, or to learn more
about it and the presenters, please visit the conference web page at
www.projectcensored.org/conference or call 707-664-3160.

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MEDIA ACCOUNTABILITY CONFERENCE
FRIDAY SCHEDULE
October 26, 2007
4:00 - 5:00 PM - REGISTRATION Ives Hall
5:00 - 7:00 PM - Author Reception Ives 119
7:00 - 9:00 PM - OPENING PANEL
Warren Auditorium (Ives 101)
Defending Our Civil Liberties
Journalists Frank Morales, Robert Parry, Jeremy Scahill and Mike
Whitney discuss the media's apparent lack of concern over our eroding
civil liberties

SATURDAY SCHEDULE
October 27, 2007
8:00 -9:00 AM - Registration & Check in Ives Hall
9:00 -10:15 AM - SESSION 1
Panel 1A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101)
Exploitation in the Service of Neocolonialism
Censored #5: David Phinney
"Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World's Largest Embassy"
Censored #11: Fariba Nawa
"Afghanistan Inc: a CorpWatch Investigative Report"
Censored #23: Peter Byrne
"Senator Feinstein's Iraq Conflict"
Panel 1B - Ives 119
Moving Toward Martial Law and an Expanding Police State
Censored #2: Frank Morales
"Bush Moves Toward Martial Law"
Censored #6: Mike Whitney
"Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State"
Censored #7: Jeremy Scahill
"Blackwater Inc and Bush's Undeclared Surge"

10:30 - 11:45 AM SESSION 2
Panel 2A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101)
Hidden Agendas Along the US/Mexico Border
Censored #9: Jerome Corsi
"Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway"
Censored #18: Joshua Holland
"Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico"
Censored #18: Nina Armand & Luciente Zamora (for Revolution Collective)
"Mexico: The Political Volcano Rumbles"
Panel 2B - Ives 119
Little Known Environmental and Animal Rights Policies
Censored #15: Tim Montague (for Peter Montague)
"Some Chemicals are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected"
Censored #17: Sunny Lewis
"Factories, Cities Across USA Exceed Water Pollution Limits"
Censored #20: Will Potter
"US House Passes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act With Little
Discussion or Dissent"
Censored #20: Odette Wilkens
"The AETA is Invidiously Detrimental to the Animal Rights Movement"

12:00 - 2:00 PM REAL NEWS AWARDS LUNCHEON
Niagara Room -- Recreation Center

2:30 - 3:45 PM SESSION 3
Panel 3A - Warren Auditorium (Ives 101)
Terrorism and the New Legal Realities
Censored #1: Robert Parry
"Still No Habeas Rights for You"
Censored #1: Thom Hartmann
"Repeal the Military Commissions Act"
Panel 3B - Ives 119
Media and Corruption Impact Military Policies
Censored #12: Wadner Pierre
"Haiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege "
Censored #12: Kevin Pina
"UN in Haiti: Accused of Second Massacre"
Censored #24: Arash Norouzi
"'Wiped Off The Map' - The Rumor of the Century" -

4:00 - 5:30 PM CLOSING KEYNOTE
Warren Auditorium
Holding Media Accountable:
How do we Recognize Censorship in the Modern Era?
Radio Host Thom Hartmann

6:00 PM INFORMAL GATHERING AND DISCUSSION
TBA

Times and presentation contents are subject to change
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