Immigration reform hindered by Media says Brookings

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Brookings Event Announcement - Democracy in the Age of New Media: A Report on the Media and the Immigration Debate

Tue Sep 23, 4:05 PM ET

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Brookings Institution Office of Communications, +1-202-797-6105

Thursday, September 25, 2008, 2:00 pm 4:00 pm

Ronald Reagan Building, Rotunda Room, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. media have hindered effective policy-making on immigration for decades, and their impact has been increasing in recent years as a result of an ongoing evolution in the media industry. Changes in the media landscape -- the advent of a 24-hour news cycle, the growing Latino media, and rise of conservative voices on cable TV news, are increasingly transforming the context of our nations political battles, and promoting stalemate on an issue that is inherently difficult to resolve. Immigration, a topic likely to resurface on the public agenda in 2009, will need to be addressed by the next administration and Congress.

On September 25, the Brookings Institution, in partnership with the Norman Lear Center at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, will release a report examining the new medias role in the U.S. immigration debate, and explore how the media conditioned public opinion and the policy landscape.

Brookings Vice President and Director of Governance Studies Darrell West will provide introductory remarks. Authors E.J. Dionne Jr., senior fellow at Brookings; Roberto Suro of the USC Annenberg School; and Banu Akdenizli of the Project for Excellence in Journalism will present their findings. A panel discussion, moderated by Harvard Universitys Marvin Kalb, will follow.

Registration opens at 1:30 p.m. The event starts promptly at 2:00 p.m.

Introduction

Darrell West

Vice President and Director of Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution

Featured Speakers

Banu Akdenizli

Index Methodologist, Project for Excellence in Journalism

Martin Kaplan

Director, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg

E.J. Dionne Jr.

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Roberto Suro

Professor, USC Annenberg

Moderator

Marvin Kalb

Edward R. Murrow Professor Emeritus, Harvard University

Panelists

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

Steven Livingston

Professor of Media & Public Affairs, George Washington University

James Carafano

Senior Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation

Ryan Lizza

Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker

Tamar Jacoby

President, ImmigrationWorks USA

Doris Meissner

Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute

Angela Kelley

Director, Immigration Policy Center

Audrey Singer

Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Mark Krikorian

Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies

Peter Skerry

Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

To RSVP, please call the Brookings Office of Communications at 202.797.6105, or visit http://onlinepressroom.net/brookings/new.

SOURCE Brookings Institution


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[Faye]

Sounds like we're fixing to get blitzed with propaganda.

[ALIPAC]

According to Wiki

The Brookings Institution is one of the biggest and most cited think tanks in America.

Described by many as liberal or left of Center, they are all about internationalism and they are funded by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.

They are consider a pro Israel group with major donors being Pew Charitable Trusts, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution