Sunday, March 1, 1998
HOST: BRIAN LEHRER

FIRST TOPIC:
WAR, PEACE AND THE NEWS MEDIA

DESCRIPTION:
Did efforts by the Administration to sell its Iraq policy in a CNN town hall to the public backfire? How should the media report on issues of war and peace?

GUESTS:
THOMAS PATTERSON, Professor of Government and the Press,
Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard University
FRANK SESNO, CNN Washington Bureau Chief
DAN MILLER, Ohio State Town Hall member

COMMENTARY: ALEX JONES: Coverage of preparations for war tells Americans a lot about ourselves.

SECOND TOPIC:
THE ARGUMENT CULTURE: Deborah Tannen on our "adversarial" media

GUEST:
DEBORAH TANNEN, author, "The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue"; Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University

COMMENTARY: MARK JURKOWITZ: Sit-coms and social issues don't mix.

THIRD TOPIC:
BLACK AND WHITE TELEVISION: When it comes to TV preferences, is America two nations?

GUESTS:
DOUGLAS ALLIGOOD, Sr. VP of Special Markets, BBDO Advertising
TODD BOYD, Professor, School for Cinema Studies, Univ. of Southern California;
author, "Am I Black Enough for Your? Pop Culture From the Hood and Beyond."

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