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L.A. Times TV
critic Howard Rosenberg speaks on the media
By Jeanne Hoffa
On-line Forty-Niner
The acerbic Howard
Rosenberg, television critic for the Los Angeles Times, will
talk about what it is like being a critic during a national
crisis when he speaks on: "Media Influence on Citizenship:
For Better or Worse" at Cal State Long Beach Thursday.
Rosenberg had an unusual assignment when the editors at the
Los Angeles Times asked him to write an evaluation of George
W. Bush's on-screen performance on Sept. 11.
His observations painted Bush as, among other things, stiff,
and somewhat unsure of himself in the article published Sept.
14.
But the political landscape had changed that day, and was
now awash in a fresh layer of eggshells for media critics
to navigate.
Rosenberg was barraged with nasty e-mails calling him unpatriotic,
he told Brook Gladstone in a radio interview.
Readers demanded his dismissal from the L.A. Times. The land
of the first amendment vastly changed.
The Pulitzer Prize winner instructs USC and UCLA journalism
students part-time and writes columns for Animals Agenda Magazine.
He is also a professor in critical studies at USC and Cal
State Northridge.
He won the Los Angeles Press Club Award, the Anti-Defamation
League Torch of Liberty Awards and the Los Angeles Press Club
Joseph M. Quinn Memorial Award, and was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize in 1985 for criticism.
The 3:30 p.m. Odyssey Event is in the Faculty and Staff Conference
Center in the East Library, Room 110.
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