Davos/NY and Porto Alegre: Can the Media Get It Right?
Anand Sarwate
Mon Jan 28, 01-01:45pm, Twenty Chimneys
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
When the New York Times' resident expert on foreign affairs was asked about one of the largest social movements in the developing world, he claimed never to have heard of it. The evidence in his columns suggests that he may have been telling the truth. Bankers, industrialists, and politicians from the rich nations meet in Davos, Switzerland, every year to discuss how the global economy ought to be run -- and the mass media tell us all about it. Whereas when people who take an alternative approach to economic development convene every year in Porto Alegre, Brazil, we hear nothing. Kevin Murray, Executive Director of Grassroots International, will help us investigate this curious phenomenon.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/hemisphere/events/freespeech-schedule.shtml
Contact: Anand Sarwate, hemisphere-admin@mit.edu
Sponsor: Western Hemisphere Project
Latest update: 25-Jan-2002
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