October 9, 2003

Contact:
Jennifer Meriam, Director
(954) 262-5355
Mike Laderman, Associate Director
(954) 262-5354
Mara Kiffin, Coordinator
(954) 262-5350

Panel Discussion About Media Coverage Of The War In Iraq To Bring Panel Of Experts To Nova Southeastern University
Panelists Include Experts In Ethics, Propaganda, Journalism, And National Defense

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL— Nova Southeastern University (NSU) will host a panel discussion on propaganda, journalistic ethics, and the media coverage of the war in Iraq, entitled, "The Media: Hawk or Dove?" at 7:30 p.m., on Thursday, October 16, room 309 of the Mailman Hollywood building on NSU’s main campus, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Admission is free, and open to all members of the community, and media.

The Division of Humanities, NSU’s Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences and the South Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists are sponsoring the event.

Questions to be explored regarding the media coverage of the war in Iraq include: Was the media embedded with the troops or just in bed with the Administration? Now that the reality of war is settling in, was the mainstream media too quick to trade access for objectivity? Did showing the American people the first draft of history as it was happening justify the compromises journalism outlets made to capture it?

Darcie Lunsford, Editorial Board, South Florida Business Journal, will moderate the discussion as experts in the areas of ethics, propaganda, journalism, and national defense explore these and other issues. The panel members include:

• Mike Kirsch, CBS 4, veteran war correspondent, who reported on the Iraq war as a non-embedded journalist


• Tom Fiedler, editor of the Miami Herald


• John Dahlburg, L.A. Times reporter and veteran European, Asian and African correspondent


• Ben Mulvey, Ph.D., ethics and philosophy professor, Director of the Division of Humanities, Farquhar College of Arts & Sciences, Nova Southeastern University


• Lt. Col. Dave Lapan, Department of Defense, involved in administration of embedded journalists during the Iraq war, now stationed at Camp LeJeune, N.C.


• Lisa Jeffery, adjunct instructor of communication at Nova Southeastern University, propaganda expert and former U.S. Air Force Captain and Public Affairs Officer during the Gulf War.

Light refreshments will be served. To RSVP, send email to reemj@nova.edu, or for more information, call 954-262-8409.