{"id":21659,"date":"1996-10-11T11:00:37","date_gmt":"1996-10-11T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21659"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:50:33","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:50:33","slug":"james-fallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1996\/10\/11\/james-fallows\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential U.S. News editor to speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of America&#8217;s most thoughtful social and political observers will speak on <em>The Media and Its Impact on Civic Discourse and Democratic Practice<\/em> at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>James Fallows, newly appointed editor of <em>U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em>, has commented on a wide range of public policy issues. He assumed stewardship of<em> U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/em> after 17 years of reporting for <em>The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>His recent book, <em>Breaking the News: How the Media Undermines Democracy<\/em> (Pantheon, 1966), has prompted great controversy. <em>Time Magazine<\/em> called his treatise a &#8220;devastatingly reasonable critique&#8221; of the public&#8217;s jaded response to a press corps increasingly cynical about politics. &#8220;By choosing to present public life as a contest among scheming political leaders, all of whom the public should view with suspicion, the press helps bring about that very result,&#8221; Fallows wrote.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fallows is also the author of <em>Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political Systems<\/em> (Pantheon, 1994) and <em>More Like Us: Making America Great Again<\/em> (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989).<\/p>\n<p>Fallows&#8217; talk is the sixth in a Bates College lecture series, <em>The Quality of Our Civic Life and Discourse<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fallows, one of America&#8217;s most thoughtful social and political observers will speak on &#8220;The Media and Its Impact on Civic Discourse and Democratic Practice&#8221; on Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives. The public is invited to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[39,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","category-news-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92144,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21659\/revisions\/92144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}