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A Consumer's Guide to Media: Finding Truth in an Election

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Commonwealth Club of California

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Partner:: Commonwealth Club
Location:: SF Club Office
San Francisco, CA
Event Date:: 10.30.12
Speakers:: Lowell Bergman,; Sally Lehrman,; Scott Lettieri,; Paul Matier,; Carly Schwartz
Tags:: news; broadcast news; radio; mass media; media

Summary: A panel of journalists, including Scott Lettieri, news reporter for KGO radio, and Lowell Bergman, a former producer of "60 Minutes," talk about the election of 2012 and the ethical guidelines governing print, online and broadcast journalism, as well as talk radio. They discuss how the public can become more discerning in evaluating what it reads, sees and hears.

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Lowell Bergman

Lowell Bergman, Director of the Investigative Reporting Program, is also a producer and correspondent for the PBS documentary series Frontline, and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at the Graduate School of Journalism. After working in the alternative press, Bergman co-founded the Center for Investigative Reporting in 1977. Soon after, he joined ABC News where he became director of investigative reporting and a producer at 20/20. In 1983, Bergman joined 60 Minutes, where over the course of 14 years he produced more than 50 segments. His 60 Minutes investigation of the tobacco industry was dramatized in the Academy Award-nominated feature film The Insider. In 1998, Bergman forged a unique collaboration between The New York Times and PBS Frontline, to co-report stories for print and broadcast with the participation of graduate students. In 2004, Bergman received the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, awarded to The New York Times for “A Dangerous Business,” which detailed a foundry company’s egregious worker safety and environmental violations. Bergman was a New York Times correspondent until 2008. Bergman has received numerous Emmy’s, as well as five Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University silver and golden Baton awards, three Peabodys, a Polk Award, a Sidney Hillman award for labor reporting, the Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism and the James Madison Freedom of Information Award for Career Achievement from The Society of Professional Journalists. Bergman has lived for nearly 40 years in Berkeley, California. He is married to Ms. Sharon Tiller, the Director of Digital Media at the Center for Investigative Reporting.

Sally Lehrman

Knight Ridder/San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair for Journalism in the Public Interest and Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Scholar, Santa Clara University

Scott Lettieri

Scott Lettieri is a news reporter at KGO radio.

Paul Matier

Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle; Commentator, KCBS Radio and CBS 5 Television

Carly Schwartz

Founding Editor, Huffington Post San Francisco

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01 hr 04 min 43 sec

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01.: Introduction by Sally Lehrman

01 min 40 sec

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02.: Introduction of Panel

02 min 39 sec

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03.: Difference Between News and Advertising

01 min 09 sec

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04.: Carly Schwartz on Being Biased

00 min 52 sec

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05.: Scott Lettieri: News is Closer to Propaganda

01 min 48 sec

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06.: Lowell Bergman on History of Objectivity

02 min 06 sec

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07.: Phil Matier: Showmanship in Journalism

02 min 02 sec

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08.: Bergman: What Happened to the Truth?

02 min 56 sec

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09.: Lettieri: The Business of News

01 min 20 sec

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10.: Having an Instinct About Truth

02 min 45 sec

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11.: Bergman: Reporting Against Yourself

02 min 41 sec

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12.: Matier: Vaughn Walker and When to Report a Fact

02 min 48 sec

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13.: Schwartz: Reporting With Caution

02 min 29 sec

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14.: Getting it Right or Getting it First

03 min 17 sec

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15.: Sensationalism in the News

01 min 57 sec

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16.: Bergman: Informing the Electorate

02 min 00 sec

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17.: Matier: Entertainment in the News

02 min 19 sec

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18.: Matier (cont'd): Truth like a Constellation

01 min 04 sec

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19.: Lettieri: Being a Storyteller

01 min 19 sec

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20.: News from Enterntainment

03 min 50 sec

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21.: Thinking About the Audience

01 min 12 sec

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22.: Emotion versus Information

03 min 48 sec

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23.: Going Back to the Fairness Doctrine

02 min 01 sec

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24.: What's Fair for Audience

01 min 58 sec

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25.: Getting the Resources to Report

02 min 29 sec

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26.: The New Delivery of News

01 min 51 sec

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27.: How to Find Reliable Sources for Journalism

02 min 27 sec

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28.: The Importance of Getting Corrected and Fact Checked

02 min 28 sec

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29.: "Says Who?": Looking After a Story's Source

02 min 26 sec

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30.: Conclusion

01 min 01 sec

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Objectivity and Truth in Journalism: Is It Possible?

03 min 37 sec

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Scott Lettieri, news reporter for KGO radio, speculates whether an objective truth exists in journalism. Acknowledging that journalists strive for complete and absolute truth, Lettieri declares that citizens should synthesize all avenues of media and news to find it.
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