Media

This lecture and discussion at the Fletcher Free Library in Burlington, VT is about French language newspapers in New England led by Dr. Carole Salmon, Assistant Professor of French Studies and Culture for UMASS at Lowell.

Barrie Dunsmore presents a public lecture titled, “The Demise of the News Media…and Why That Matters.” The event, is part of the UVM Political Science Department’s Mark L. Rosen Lecture Series. Dunsmore covered foreign affairs for ABC News for thirty years, reporting from Washington and abroad on the policies of seven U.S. Presidents from Johnson to Clinton. He traveled with them all overseas and was a regular on the planes of their Secretaries of State. From 1965-95 he reported from more than one hundred countries on virtually every major international event from wars to summits to diplomatic shuttles.  Dunsmore is the author of There and Back, a collection of columns on Middle East policy, superpower strategies and controversial domestic issues. He is a regular commentator on VPR and a columnist for the Rutland Herald. 

Governor Shumlin's press conference.

Roz Payne, Archivist and John Douglas, Filmmaker and co-founder of the Newsreel Collective discuss the role of alternative media during the public uprisings of the 1960's and 1970's against the Viet Nam War and in support of economic justice. They discuss the current Occupy movement(s) and reflect on how history repeats itself as long as capitalism remains the dominant economic order.