Author Headlines SHU Media Studies Symposium

FAIRFIELD — The featured speaker for the Ninth Annual Media Studies Symposium at Sacred Heart University will be Eric Alterman, who will discuss his current book, What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News (Basic Books, 2003), described by Publishers Weekly as “required reading for anyone in politics or journalism, or anyone curious about their complicated nexus.” The symposium will take place on Sunday, April 13, at 7:30 pm, in the Schine Auditorium/Ryan-Matura Library on the Sacred Heart University main campus, 5151 Park Avenue. The event is open to the public and admission is free.

Mr Alterman is a frequent commentator on media and political affairs, and his book, Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy, has been described by Bill Moyers as, “The best book yet on the insider culture of Washington.” Alterman currently writes the “Stop the Presses” media column for The Nation and the Altercation web log (wwww.altercation.msnbc.com) for MSNBC.com. In recent years, he has been a contributing editor to or columnist for Worth, Rolling Stone, Elle, Mother Jones, World Policy Journal, and The Sunday Express (London). His Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), won the 1992 George Orwell Award, and his It Ain’t No Sin to be Glad You’re Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen (1999, 2001), won the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. He is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1998), and When Presidents Lie: Deception and Its Consequences (forthcoming). He is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at New School University, and an affiliated faculty member in the magazine journalism program at New York University.