Veteran CBS Correspondent Tom Fenton Speaks to OPC on Failed TV Coverage

Veteran CBS Correspondent Tom Fenton Speaks to OPC on Failed TV Coverage

NEW YORK, Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Who: Tom Fenton, award-winning, London-based CBS correspondent, 1970 to
last December, on disastrous effect of inept and insufficient television
news coverage of U.S. foreign policy.

What: Discusses his contention that TV coverage is largely at fault for
the lack of knowledge and understanding at home as described in his new
book, Bad News: The Decline of Reporting, The Business of News and The
Danger to Us All (Harper/Collins - Regan Books).

Background:
* Fenton says book will initiate campaign to galvanize Americans to
awareness of need for more and better news.
* Book endorsements include Walter Cronkite and Don Hewitt.
* Fenton: "Far too often we take the official line. We live and die
by the size of our audience; we dumb down the news to pump up the
ratings ... We are falling down on the job."
* "At the time of the Bush Kerry election," Fenton says, for the
first time "the news media had an even worse credibility gap" than
the government.

When: Monday, February 28 Reception at 5:30pm, Talk at 6:15pm
Where: Club Quarters, 40 W. 45th St. (between 5th & 6th Avenues) NYC

RSVP: OPC Office, 212 626-9220, sonya@opcofamerica.org

MEDIA CONTACT: Sonya Fry, OPC, 212 626-9220.



Source: OPC

CONTACT: OPC Office, +1-212-626-9220, sonya@opcofamerica.org


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