COLLEGE TO HOST PANEL, RECEPTION AT NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

Dean Bierbauer will lead a discussion Thursday (May 20) at the National Press Club in Washington on advertising in the 2004 race for President. (You'll find details below.) The panel will be followed by an alumni reception. If you are in the D.C. area, we'd love to see you. Just RSVP to Randy Covington by returning this E-mail.

Also, we want to bring to your attention an op ed column the Dean wrote for The State newspaper on the graphic images coming out of Iraq. The column is now posted on our website: http://www.sc.edu/cmcis/news/column/warphotos.html

Campaign Ads 2004: Truth or Consequences
Thursday, May 20, 6 p.m.
National Press Club, Murrow Room
Moderator: Charles Bierbauer, Dean of the University of South Carolina
College of Mass Communications and Information Studies

Panelists:
Tucker Eskew, former director of the White House Office of Global
Communications
Mike McCurry, former press secretary to President Clinton
Brooks Jackson, director of the Annenberg Political Fact Check Project
Candy Crowley, CNN senior political correspondent
Shelby Coffey, The Freedom Forum