Dr. Robert Jensen (The University of Texas at Austin) // January 31st, 2017 // 2:00pm-3:00pm // Jesse H. Jones Communication Center (CMA) 5.136 The routine assertion that mainstream journalism outlets are disproportionately staffed by liberals, producing a liberal bias in mainstream news, misses the more deeply embedded conservative nature of corporate commercial journalism. In this talk, […]
Dr. Christopher Queen (Harvard University) // January 24th, 2017 // 1:00pm-2:30pm // Belo Center for New Media (BMC) 5.208 Following the 2013 release of Navayana’s annotated critical edition of B. R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste with an introductory essay by Arundhati Roy, Dalit (ex-Untouchable) activists angrily charged that Roy and the publisher were unqualified to write […]