Author and media criti Jeff Cohen of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting will take the stage on Friday, April 13 at 7 p.m. in Roberts Hall on the University of Alabama in Huntsville campus. The event is free and open to the public.

In this entertaining presentation, according to the press release, Cohen explains why television news has become a national joke and a nightly Jon Stewart punch line, based on his firsthand experience. Cohen started out as an outsider critic but became an insider pundit. He takes his audience on a personal tour of TV news, illuminating what’s comical and what’s tragic in the news business today.

Cohen’s cable news experience includes serving as co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire,” a weekly “News Watch” panelist on Fox News and a commentator on MSNBC. He was senior producer of “Donahue” on MSNBC, until the show was terminated on the eve of the Iraq War.

Cohen is well known for founding the media watch group, FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) in 1986. He is author of five books and his latest, Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media, was published last year. This book dissects the cable news channels and finds serious failures in how they cover the most urgent issues of the day.

A book signing will follow the lecture. Books will be available for sale.

For more information, visit the Website of the North Alabama Media Reform organization, call 256-489-3884 or e-mail: lahaynes@knology.net.

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