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Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and The Selling of American Empirewill be shown and a question session moderated by Robert Jensen of the School of Journalism at the University of Texas on Friday, Oct. 22.
The IU Bloomington campus event will be at the Chemistry Building, Room 122, at 2:30 p.m. and again at Whittenberger Auditorium at the Indiana Memorial Union at 7 p.m. on the IU Bloomington campus.
Sponsors are the American Studies Program, Horizons of Knowledge, the Department of Telecommunications and the Union Board.
The film, narrated by Julian Bond, is a documentary produced
the Media Education Foundation (http://www.mediaed.org)
of Northampton, Mass.
Jensen teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics and politics. He also writes for popular media, both alternative and mainstream. His opinion and analytic pieces on such subjects as foreign policy, politics and race have appeared in papers throughout the country.
"If journalists don’t provide a truly independent source of news and, instead, routinely subordinate themselves to power—especially in times of war and national crisis—it is difficult to imagine how citizens can adequately inform themselves so that they can participate in the political arena in a meaningful way."
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