[ACLU-CU ALERT] Campus Program on Free Speech

[Champaign County ACLU Announcements]

 "Should the First Amendment be Abolished?: Media, Free Speech, and the Decline of Freedom"Tuesday, November 11, 20087-8:30pm, Illini Union Courtyard CafeSpeaker: Robert McChesney, host of Media Matters & Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the President and co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization – www.freepress.net. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL-AM radio – http://will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm; it is the top-rated program in its time slot in the Champaign-Urbana area. From 1988 to 1998 he was on the Journalism and Mass Communication faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. McChesney earned his Ph.D. in communications at the University of Washington in 1989. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. McChesney has written or edited seventeen books. McChesney’s most recent book is Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media, published by New Press in fall 2007. A companion book, The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (Monthly Review Press), will appear in spring 2008.   Please visit http://studentaffairs.illinois.edu/diversity/uncensored.htmlfor more information about this series. We look forward to seeing you on the 11th. 
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