turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) (09/05/89)
Expires 10/27/89
(Posted for Mike Grossberg)
QUESTIONING AUTHORITY!
Free Media, Free Minds IV
New York City Oct. 27-29, 1989
First time in New York since 1986! East Coast Human Rights
Conference of Year! Fourth national Free Press Association
conference on First Amendment frontiers and civil liberties
controversies.
Attend the FPA's fourth national conference and eighth annual
Mencken Awards banquet, cosponsored by the National Coalition
Against Censorship, Laissez Faire Books and the Long Island
University journalism department.
Sponsored by the Free Press Association, a national network of
journalists and First Amendment absolutists. (Benefits include
newsletter, media ID cards, book discounts and more. Regular
membership: $25/year. For free membership brochure or Mencken
Awards entry form, send SASE to FPA, Box 15548, Columbus, OH
43215.)
CONFERENCE TOPICS: Bush-league censorship in the 'kinder,
gentler' 90s. Media Sensationalism and the War on Drugs. TV's New
Thought Police: A Broadcasting Industry Forum. Cocktail Parties.
Exhibit tables. Plus, panels on Media Coverage of Minority
Issues, Foreign Affairs and the Economy. And more!
Jonathan Kwitny ("Endless Enemies," "Crimes of Patriots") on "The
Perils of Questioning Authority: How My Mencken Finalist Book Was
Suppressed by the Foreign Policy Establishment." Black economist
Walter Williams on "What the Media Miss About South Africa."
Other conference speakers:
--Doug Bandow (syndicated columnist)
--"Joe Bob Briggs" aka John Bloom (Movie Channel drive-in critic)
--Peter Brimelow (Forbes senior editor)
--Dennis Cauchon (USA Today financial reporter)
--Robert Corn-Revere (1st Amendment attorney, Nation writer)
--Donna Demac (author "Liberty Denied: Rise of Censorship in U.S.")
--John Fund (Wall Street Journal editorialist)
--John Kamp (FCC public affairs director)
--Jonathan Kwitny (PBS' syndicated "Kwitny Report" show)
--Charles Levendosky (1988 Mencken-winning editorial page editor)
--Aryeh Neier (former ACLU National Director)
--Russ Smith (editor, publisher, New York Press weekly)
--Walter Williams (author, "The State Against Blacks")
Plus more speakers and topics to be announced!
All conference events will take place in the Library Learning
Center on the Downtown Brooklyn campus of Long Island University,
just minutes from Manhattan. Banquet nearby on campus.
Registrations: Conference and banquet: $75. Conference only: $50.
Banquet only: %50. Students: $20 (no meal). Register now! Prices
higher at door. For more info, write FPA, Box 15548, Columbus, OH
43215. Or call 614-236-1908.
(Do not respond to poster.)
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