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Bias and Beyond: Stephen Hayes Talk
November 28, 2005
Washington College's Goldstein Program in Public Affairs took a deeper look at the issue of media bias with journalist Stephen Hayes, staff writer for The Weekly Standard and author of The Connection: How Al Qaeda's Cooperation with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America (Harper Collins, 2004).
The Goldstein Program in Public Affairs was established in honor of the late Louis L. Goldstein, a 1935 alumnus and Maryland's longest serving elected official. The Goldstein Program sponsors lectures, symposia, visiting fellows, travel, and other projects that bring students and faculty together with leaders in public policy and the media.
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Mr. Hayes was introduced by the curator of the Goldstein Program, Professor Tahir Shad, who is Director of International Studies at Washington College and a frequent contributor to discussions of Middle East policy and diplomacy on the Marc Steiner Show on WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore.
A C-SPAN crew was on hand to tape the event for broadcast on C-SPAN2's BOOK TV.
In his talk "Beyond Bias: Liberals, Conservatives, and the New World of Political Journalism," Mr. Hayes asserted that the diversity and proliferation of news sources and analyses provided by online journals and blogs helped to balance the biased reporting and myopia often found in the traditional print and broadcast media.
Students fired questions at Mr. Hayes during the Q&A period.
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