• Journalist Nermeen Shaikh will speak about the fallacies and distortions of mainstream media and how independent news outlets like Democracy Now! provide an urgently needed corrective.

Nermeen Shaikh is a cohost and news producer at Democracy Now! She is the author of “The Present as History,” published by Columbia University Press. She regularly speaks on issues ranging from contemporary news media and film to politics and literature. She has presented in various venues including the United Nations, TEDx Danubia (Hungary), the Toronto International Film Festival, the American Psychological Association, the New European Literature Festival, among others.

7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019
Center for Natural Sciences 112

Free and open to the public
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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation, please contact
Brandy Hawley at bhawley@ithaca.edu or 607-274-3590 as soon as possible.