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Experts Available on Sinclair Broadcasting Decision to Fire DC Bureau News Director
Newswise — Sinclair Broadcasting fired Washington, DC Bureau Chief Jon Lieberman this week, when he criticized company plans to broadcast an hour-long program highly critical of Democratic presidential hopeful John Kerry's Vietnam record. Lieberman called plans to broadcast the program on all of Sinclair's 62 televison stations "indefensible." Sinclair management characterized Lieberman as a "disgruntled employee." University of Maryland experts are available to comment on the incident. Feel free to contact them at the phone numbers or email addresses below. Douglas Gomery - professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism; scholar-in-residence at the Library of American Broadcasting, University of Maryland Expertise - economics and history of the mass media in America. Credentials - Gomery is the author of 10 books and more than 600 articles covering the economics and history of the mass media. He has written for publications including the Baltimore Sun, Village Voice and Woodrow Wilson Quarterly. Web Page - http://www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/dgomery Chris Hanson - professor of journalism, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland Expertise: journalism ethics, media coverage of war and media-military relations. Credentials - combat correspondent in the Gulf War; covered the civil war in Rwanda; covered Pentagon and State Department; written on potential journalistic pitfalls in covering terrorism Web site: http://www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/chanson/ Tom Kunkel - dean, Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland Expertise - journalism ethics, media analysis, and criticism. Credentials - a former top editor for the San Jose Mercury, Miami Herald and Cincinnati Post, Kunkle also serves as media criticism columnist for the American Journalism Review. Kunkel served as the director of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at Maryland. He has written extensively about the media and is in demand as a media commentator in print and on air. Web site - http://www.journalism.umd.edu/faculty/tkunkel/ Shawn J. Parry-Giles, professor of communication, women's studies; director, Center for Political Communication and Civic Leadership, University of Maryland Expertise - media criticism, presidential and first lady rhetoric. Credentials - co-authored with Trevor Parry-Giles the book "Constructing Clinton: Hyperreality and Presidential Image-Making in Postmodern Politics." Her ongoing research looks at presidential and first lady discourse, presidential war rhetoric, presidential campaigns, politics and popular culture. Parry-Giles is the author of "The Rhetorical Presidency, Propaganda, and the Cold War 1945-1955." Web site - http://www.comm.umd.edu/people/faculty/sparrygiles.html Trevor Parry-Giles - assistant professor of communication, University of Maryland Expertise - rhetoric, political culture and legal rhetoric. An ongoing project includes analyzing the 20th century Supreme Court confirmation process. Credentials - Prof. Parry-Giles is currently writing a new book about the TV series "The West Wing." He's also working on a book about the Supreme Court nomination cycles, including an in-dept look at the Clarence Thomas nomination process. He is also a political consultant. Web Site - http://www.comm.umd.edu/people/faculty/tparrygiles.html
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