Communications Forum "Stealth Bombers: Invisible Information?" Speaker: Robert Zalisk, Writer-Producer, PBS Thursday April 15, 1999 4:00-6:00 pm Bartos Theater   A recent cable tv documentary described the development of the $2 billion B-2 bomber (and other stealth planes) now being used in the Balkans. Was the program adequate? What information does the American public get about such high tech weapons--or about scientific and technological information more generally? Must television always simplify complex information? Robert Zalisk, the writer and co-producer of the program, will screen his documentary and raise some disturbing questions about how his work was edited and "framed" by the cable channel that telecast it. He will be joined in the discussion by two science journalists who are currently Knight Fellows at MIT. Robert Zalisk, writer and co-producer of Stealth: Flying Invisible, has produced programs for television, mainly PBS, for over a decade. An award-winning producer at NOVA for several years, he is a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Institute, and has also worked in radio and print. Free and Open to the Public

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