Sunday, June 3, 2001 / 3 P.M. / Tickets: $5
UCSB Campbell Hall
Tickets available from UCSB Arts & Lectures Box Office (893-3535).

“The Impact of the Media on American Life” (June 3, 2001) was the inaugural event in this series and featured three eminent panelists and a moderator drawn from the print, broadcast, and electronic media who hold diverse views about the effects of mass communication upon contemporary American society. A senior analyst for CNN, Emmy Award-winner Jeff Greenfield reports extensively on political affairs and was host of CNN's heralded town hall meetings including Investigating the President: Media Madness? Richard Rodriguez is an author, editor at Pacific News Service and a Peabody Award-winning broadcast essayist for PBS' The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator William Safire has been writing for The New York Times from a libertarian conservative viewpoint since 1973 and is author of the twice-weekly column On Language. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, is the author of numerous books addressing politics, the press and public policy.

The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series at UCSB is presented by the College of Letters and Science, UCSB Arts & Lectures, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

For additional information on the The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series at UCSB, please visit http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/series/rupe/