Screening: _The Myth of the Liberal Media_ (Tue., Jan. 15)

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

Progressive Film Series:
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires

_The Myth of the Liberal Media: the Propaganda Model of News_
(Prod. the Media Education Foundation, 1999)

Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky demolish the myth of the "liberal
media."  Using systematic empirical research, they reveal the manner
in which the news media are so subordinated to corporate and
conservative interests that their function can only be described as
that of "elite propaganda."

Date: Tuesday, January 15
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: 264 MacQuigg Lab, OSU, 105 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH

A propaganda system treats victims of its own government or clients
as "unworthy victims," i.e. victims unworthy of media attention and
indignation.

*  Worthy Victims = 3,117 dead or missing in the 911 attacks = 2,893
dead or missing at the World Trade Center + 184 dead or missing at
the Pentagon + 40 dead in Pennsylvania  (Source: New York Times 9
Jan. 02: A11)
*  Unworthy Victims = 3,767 Afghan civilians dead in US bombing
attacks (as of 6 Dec. 01) + uncounted undocumented workers (aka
"illegal aliens") dead at the WTC (Source: Marc W. Herold, a
professor of Economics & Women's Studies at the University of New
Hampshire, at <www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm>)
The number of the Afghan civilian dead, considered in proportion to
the total Afghan population, is roughly equivalent to about 38,000 US
civilians or eleven World Trade Center attacks, but deaths of Afghans
are invisible in the US corporate media?.

Sponsored by the Student International Forum <www.osu.edu/students/sif>
OSU campus map: <www.osu.edu/map/linkbuildings/macquigglab.html>
For more info, contact Yoshie Furuhashi at <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx> or
614-668-6554; and Keith Kilty at <kilty.1@xxxxxxx> or 614-292-7181.

The flyer for the screening is available at
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/myth.doc>.
--
Yoshie

* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
<http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/calendar.html>
* Anti-War Activist Resources: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/activist.html>
* Student International Forum: <http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/>
* Committee for Justice in Palestine: <http://www.osu.edu/students/CJP/>