DATE: 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Sept. 10, 2008.

EVENT: David Marash, who anchored news from Washington for the global news channel, Al Jazeera English, will give the 2008 Josh Rosenthal Education Fund Lecture. His talk is titled “The Medium is not the Message.”

Marash has nearly 50 years of experience in broadcast journalism, including 16 years as the chief international correspondent for ABC News Nightline.

In the ever-expanding world of global communication, there are lots of “new media” such as Internet and mobile phone links for the transmission of text, voice and pictures. While there are new players guiding the still dominant mainstream media, content still matters. All the media are capable of transmitting all kinds of data, so what is crucial is how the owners and practitioners of communications media shape and refine, select and define their output. How they do so will determine whether we have a shrinking, inter-connected planet or an increasingly fractured, adversarial one.

PLACE: Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall, 735 S. State St. Central Campus map: http://www.umich.edu/news/Maps/ccamp.html

SPONSOR: Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy’s Josh Rosenthal Education Fund?created in memory of Josh Rosenthal, a 1979 U-M graduate who died at the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001.

CONTACT: Laura Lee, (734) 764-8593.

WEB LINK: For more information about the lecture, visit: http://www.fordschool.umich.edu/