Behind the Headlines

What is the responsibility of the news media in a time of war?  That provocative question is the subject of a panel discussion I’ll be participating in Thursday (Feb. 22, 7 p.m. at Temple Adath Israel, 124 N. Ashland Ave. in Lexington).  The other panelists are Al Cross, a journalist and director of  UK’s Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, and John Stempel, a professor in UK’s Patterson School of Diplomacy. The program is free and open to the public.  It is sponsored by the Central Kentucky Chapter of  the American Civil Liberties Union, perhaps the only group whose role in society is less understood and more disliked than that of journalists.  It should be an interesting discussion, so stop by if you can. On Friday, I’ll let you know how it went.

Tom Eblen
Managing Editor