MEDIA EXPERT ERIC ALTERMAN TO SPEAK AT ADRIAN COLLEGE posted 4/2/04

The Adrian College Convocation speaker series presents political and cultural columnist Eric Alterman Wednesday, April 14, at 12:15 p.m. in Dawson Auditorium. The topic of Alterman's speech is "What Liberal Media: The Truth about Bias in the News."

Eric Alterman is one of the country's leading experts on media bias and the author of the recent bestseller “What Liberal Media?” Alterman is a respected journalist and author, who has written for Rolling Stone and the New York Times and whose columns appear in The Nation. 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, Alterman holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Stanford.

Alterman's extensive award-winning writing includes Sound & Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy (1992, 2000), for which he 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), which won him the 1999 Stephen Crane Literary Award. He is also the author of Who Speaks for America? Why Democracy Matters in Foreign Policy (1998), The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)Leads America (with Mark Green, 2004) and When Presidents Lie: Deception and Its Consequences (2004).

This program is free and open to the public. Dawson Auditorium is located off of Charles Street. (campus map) For more information call 517-264-3862.

Release by Jill Schuster '04