February 11, 2004
Contact: Terry J. San Filippo
College of Liberal Arts
(805) 756-1216
‘Medialand’ -- Journalism or Entertainment or What?
To Be Discussed at Herb Kamm Media Forum March 11 at Cal Poly
SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Is what we see and hear in the media really news?
That question and others regarding the quality of information in today’s
media will be explored by a distinguished panel of experts at the 2004
Herb Kamm Media Forum on March 11 at Cal Poly.
The free public forum, titled “The Good, the Bad and Medialand,”
will begin at 7 p.m. in Philips Hall of the Performing Arts Center’s
Christopher Cohan Center. It is the eighth such event in a continuing
series initiated by the late journalist and Cal Poly advisor Herb Kamm.
Featured guest panelist Louis D. Boccardi, former CEO and president of
the Associated Press, will join six additional journalists, including
Cal Poly journalism graduates Steffan Tubbs (ABC News), Peter Hartlaub
and John Hubbell (the San Francisco Chronicle), and Ryan Huff (the San
Luis Obispo Tribune), and Cal Poly Journalism Professor Teresa Allen.
The evening’s moderator will be George Ramos, Cal Poly Journalism
Department chair and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the
Los Angeles Times.
“Their objective and ours,” said College of Liberal Arts Dean
Harry Hellenbrand, “is to take a hard and reasoned look at where
journalism and entertainment each begins and ends, and how the confusion
between the two affects the American public’s concept of news.”
From 1999 through 2001, Kamm produced seven media forums in conjunction
with Cal Poly that drew hundreds of people to campus to hear from national
and local media writers; film and television writers, critics and directors;
and political commentators.
The March 11 forum is the first to be presented in Kamm’s honor.
The university, at the request of donors, has also established the Herb
Kamm Journalism Scholarship to reward outstanding students in that field.
For more information about the forum or the Herb Kamm Journalism Scholarship,
call the College of Liberal Arts College Relations Office at (805) 756-1216
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