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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Global Hour: Financial Crisis: Media reported or created
Dear students and scholars,
Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions.
Title: Financial Crisis: Media reported or created
DATE: Thursday, October 16th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
VENUE: International House
This week in Global Hour we will have a look at the role of media in the current world wide financial situation. Is the media coverage reporting just the story or is it creating the story? Lots of ideas are coming out about how to handle the crisis and how is the media profiling these efforts and the people behind them?
Some Points and Questions to Ponder:
1. Do you believe that media reporting has been fair, accurate and appropriate regarding the unfolding international financial crisis?
2. Do you see a connection between the financial crisis and the presidential campaigns?
a. Who has benefited the most?3. Do you believe the crisis will go away once the US elections are over?
4. Media reports trillions of dollars have been lost in the last few weeks.
a. Where did go? b. Was it real money?
5. Why was the media not blowing the whistle on their identified sources of the crisis before the crisis hit? a. Government b. Financial institutions
6. Is the free press serving the same role today as when the idea of a free press was enshrined in the Bill of Rights?
Got an Hour? Join Global Hour!
Global Hour is a weekly program of informal discussion that covers a wide range of topics. It is committed to facilitating the exchange of views and perspectives within a relaxed setting, while engaging important issues that highlight global and human conditions.
Title: Financial Crisis: Media reported or created
DATE: Thursday, October 16th from 6:30 P.M. to 8:30 P.M.
VENUE: International House
This week in Global Hour we will have a look at the role of media in the current world wide financial situation. Is the media coverage reporting just the story or is it creating the story? Lots of ideas are coming out about how to handle the crisis and how is the media profiling these efforts and the people behind them?
Some Points and Questions to Ponder:
1. Do you believe that media reporting has been fair, accurate and appropriate regarding the unfolding international financial crisis?
2. Do you see a connection between the financial crisis and the presidential campaigns?
a. Who has benefited the most?
4. Media reports trillions of dollars have been lost in the last few weeks.
a. Where did go? b. Was it real money?
5. Why was the media not blowing the whistle on their identified sources of the crisis before the crisis hit? a. Government b. Financial institutions
6. Is the free press serving the same role today as when the idea of a free press was enshrined in the Bill of Rights?
Got an Hour? Join Global Hour!
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