[MGP-Forum Announce] Sonoma State's Project Censored staging "media accountability conference"

[Bill Densmore]

A "media accountability conference" featuring presentations by more than 20 
journalists and writers whose work made the 2007 list of the nation's 
most-under-reported stories compiled by Project Censored is scheduled for Nov. 
3-4, 2006, at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, Calif., north of San 
Francisco.   The even begins Friday afternoon and ends Saturday night.  Peter 
Phillips, Project Censored director (MGP2006 participant) is a key organizer of 
the conference, which costs $70, or $50 for students.  To register online go 
to: http://www.projectcensored.org/conference/ or call (707) 664-3166.  Among 
topics to be covered by the speakers are: why the media needs to act as a 
consumer watchdog, views of the military-industrial complex, covering 
fresh-water issues, declining accountability and transparency in government, 
corporate conflict-of-interest and misdeeds, global economic coverage, and 
post-911 war-information suppression.