Yale Bulletin and Calendar

November 22, 2002|Volume 31, Number 12|Two-Week Issue

Panel to explore relationship between media
and security forces in the 'War on Terror'

On Thursday, Dec. 5, U.S. Representative Christopher Shays and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will be among distinguished panelists at a campus symposium examining the relationship between news organizations and American security agencies as they face a new kind of war.

Sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Ethics, Politics and Economics Program, "The Role of the Media in the War on Terror" will be held at 7:45 p.m. in Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave. It is free and open to the public.

Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state and now president of the Brookings Institution, will moderate the panel.

Panelists will also include Karen DeYoung, an associate editor at the Washington Post, who received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting as part of the team covering the post-Sept. 11 war against terror; and Lt. General Bernard Trainor (Retired), a former military correspondent for The New York Times and one-time director of the National Security Program at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Hersh has written for The New Yorker magazine since 1971 and has worked at The New York Times on special assignment. His books include "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House," which won a National Book Critics Circle Award, and "The Target Is Destroyed: What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It." He won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and has won four George Polk Awards.

Shays, who represents Fairfield County, Connecticut, is a leader among moderates in the Republican Party. He was the driving force behind the Congressional Accountability Act, which requires Congress to live by the laws it sets for the rest of the country. He is also a leader of the coalition supporting campaign finance reform. He is chair of the Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, which oversees the Departments of State, Defense and Veterans Affairs, and is chair of the Government Reform Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Talbott assumed the presidency of the Brookings Institution in July 2002, after a career in journalism, government and academe. His immediate previous post was founding director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. He served in the State Department from 1993 to 2001, first as an ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state for the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. He went on to become deputy secretary of state, a position he held for seven years.

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