FAIR event in NYC

[Guest guest]

FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) presents

 

" And Now, Our Glorious Leader:

GW Bush, TV news & the dumbing of democracy "

 

a talk by Mark Crispin Miller, author of " The Bush Dyslexicon "

 

Thursday, June 27, 6:30 PM

Housing Works Used Book Café

126 Crosby St (between Prince and Houston), New York

Free and Open to the Public

 

George W. Bush's broken English and his ignorance about the world are

certainly unprecedented for a U.S. chief executive. Remarks like " I will

have a foreign-handed foreign policy " and " Is our children learning? " are

all too typical. Yet even before September 11, the U.S. mainstream media

have bent over backwards to make excuses for him.

 

In the newly updated " Bush Dyslexicon, " media critic Mark Crispin Miller

catalogues Bush's strange and sometimes frightening utterances, along with

the press's Pravda-esque portrayal of Bush as a statesman of Churchillian

stature. For Miller, the media's response to Bush's mistakes isn't simply

funny or embarrassing-- rather, it's a sign of how much power has been

amassed by Bush's corporate sponsors. " We Americans have been tricked out

of our democracy, " writes Miller, " by a vast and very smart conspiracy of

stupid talkers. " Now more than ever, he insists, we must stop merely

laughing at this dangerous president, whose errors tell us all we need to

know: " We are resolved to rout out terror wherever it exists, " Bush said

on January 31, " to save the world from freedom! "

 

Mark Crispin Miller is professor of media studies at New York University,

and director of the Project On Media Ownership, a non-profit that tracks

the concentration of media ownership. His latest book is " The Bush

Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder. "