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Democrats and the Values Vote - Media Panel Discussion

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics

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Political scientist Shanto Iyengar and media critic Amy Mitchell argue that Republican appeals to "American values" - a successful strategy in recent elections - may not be as effective in 2008.

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Join swissnex and our esteemed panel to discuss the media/politics nexus inside election campaigns.

During the course of the evening we will gain a better understanding of the interplay between systems of political mass communications, party competition and election polemics by exploring the relationship between media and politics - Swissnex

Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution.

Iyengar's teaching and research addresses the role of the news media and mass communication in contemporary politics. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate Explorations in Political Psychology,and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion.

Amy S. Mitchell is Deputy Director for the Project for Excellence in Journalism. She has been with the Project since its inception in 1997. Her primary focus is creating and managing the Project’s research, including the Annual Report on the State of the News Media as well as other more specific studies of the news media. She also works on the Project’s teaching instruments including editing a case study curriculum for journalism teaching, titled Thinking Clearly: Case Studies in Journalistic Decision Making. Prior to this occupation, Mitchell was a congressional research associate at the American Enterprise Institute where she researched public policy and its relationship with the press, the public and government.

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