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Morning Session
Welcome
Paul Holdengräber, Director, LIVE from the
NYPL
Overview
András
Szántó, Project Director
Introduction
Orville
Schell, Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China
Relations, Asia Society; former dean, UC Berkeley Graduate School of
Journalism
Moderator: Orville Schell
Panelists: Konstanty Gebert, Warsaw-based
former Solidarity activist; columnist and international reporter,
Gazeta Wyborcza · Masha Gessen, Moscow-based
author and journalist; contributor to The New York Times, The New
Republic, and US News & World Report · Jack
Miles, senior fellow for religious affairs, Pacific
Council on International Policy; distinguished professor of English
and religious studies, UC Irvine · George Soros, chair of Soros
Fund Management LLC; philanthropist and author
Afternoon Sessions
Afternoon Overview
András
Szántó, Project Director
Moderator: Nicholas Lemann, dean and
Henry R. Luce Professor, The Journalism School, Columbia
University
Panelists: George
Lakoff, Co-Founder and Senior Fellow, Rockridge
Institute and the Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive
Science and Linguistics, UC Berkeley · Frank Luntz, political
pollster and consultant; author of Words That Work: It's Not What
You Say, It's What People Hear · Deborah Tannen*, University
Professor and professor of linguistics, Georgetown University; author
of fourteen books on language, communication, and perception ·
Drew
Westen, professor of psychology/psychiatry and behavioral
sciences, Emory University; author of The Political Brain: The
Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation. [*Deborah Tannen was unable to attend the conference.]
Moderator: Ernest J. Wilson III, dean and
Walter Annenberg Chair in Communication, Annenberg School for
Communication at the University of Southern California
Panelists: Michael
J. Copps, commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
· Charlayne Hunter-Gault,
broadcast journalist, former CNN bureau chief, and chief national
correspondent, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer · Josh
Marshall, publisher of Talking Points Memo,
TPMmuckraker, TPM Election Central and TPMCafe ·
Alessandra
Stanley, television critic and former Moscow-bureau
co-chief, The New York Times
I. PROPAGANDA THEN AND NOW: WHAT ORWELL DID AND DIDN'T KNOW