Media analyst to give lecture at SUNY New Paltz on Feb. 6

NEW PALTZ — Rachel Coen, a media analyst with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), will give a lecture titled “Media Coverage of Civil Liberties and Dissent” at 7 p.m. on Feb. 6 in the Coykendall Science Building on the SUNY New Paltz campus.

The lecture will address the mainstream media post-Sept. 11, and its reluctance to critically analyze the Bush administration’s “war on terror.” Coen will discuss media coverage of the USA Patriot Act, a bill passed after 9/11, and more broadly, the media’s coverage of dissent.

Coen contributes regularly to FAIR’s quarterly, Extra, and has been interviewed by a wide range of media outlets, including National Public Radio (NPR), the Los Angeles Times, Columbia Journalism Review and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

The lecture is sponsored by The 911 Response Planning Committee, Sociology Department, Women’s Studies Program, Honors Program, SA Funded Center for Peace and Social Justice, and the Journalism Program.

For more information, contact Denise Bauer of the Women’s Studies Department at (845) 257-3505, or visit www.newpaltz.edu/sociology.