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Start: Mar 2 2008 - 2:45pmEnd: Mar 2 2008 - 4:15pm
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The blogosphere has the reputation of producing shallow commentary and shouting matches. The journalists and documentary filmmaker on this panel have used the web for richer reporting in the best tradition of analytical journalism that exposes the realities of war, conservatives at the grassroots, and anti-immigrant sentiment. The panelists will share their work, and reflect on the strengths and limits of the web as a medium for analytical reporting that leads to social awareness.
Max Blumenthal's work regularly appears in the Nation, Huffington Post, and Media Matters for America, where he is a research fellow. His short video, Generation Chickenhawk, exposed the reasons Young Republicans offered for not signing up for the Iraq War. He received an Annenberg online journalism award. His book, Gomorrah: Inside the Republican Land of Sin, is due out in July.
Sarah Posner, author of God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters, writes the FundamentaList blog for the American Prospect, and has covered the religious right for the Prospect, The Nation, The Washington Spectator, AlterNet, and other publications.
Roberto Lovato is contributing editor for New America Media, a contributor to the Nation and Huffington Post, and on the editorial board of The Public Eye, a quarterly about the US Right. He has produced programming for NPR, Pacifica and the Univision Television Network. He blogs regularly on media, migration, and politics at www.ofamerica.wordpress.com.
Brian Conley is a documentary filmmaker who launched AliveinBaghdad.org, a weekly news program that employs Iraqi journalists to produce videos about daily life in Iraq. In November ‘06 he travelled to Oaxaca City and elsewhere in southern Mexico to begin SWN’s next project, Alive in Mexico.