PRESS RELEASE
Mira Yardemian
Public Relations Director
Haigazian University
Rue Mexique – Kantari
P.O. Box 11-1748
Riad El-Solh 1107 2090
Beirut – Lebanon

David Barsamian lectures at Haigazian University:
Breaking Media Monopoly

“Information is central for a good functioning Democracy” said
Mr. Barsamian, an American freethinking activist, founder and director of
“Alternative Radio” that broadcast independent and award winning weekly
series, based in Boulder, Colorado,
During a lecture organized by the Heritage Club, on April the
5th , 2005 at Haigazian University, David Barsamian introduced the audience
with the mechanism by which the American Media functions. In fact, 5 big
corporations dominate the US media, which are: AOL, NewsCorp, Disney, GE,
and Viacom. These corporations have direct impact on media agencies, such
as, Time Warner (CNN), Fox, ABC, NBC, and CBS.
Barsamian noted that Information is central for a good
functioning Democracy, and journalism itself needs a broad spectrum of
information, therefore was the need of creating the “Alternative Radio”, a
medium to provide a counter narrative to the news broadcasted by these few
news agencies.
Barsamian named several independent news agencies in the
States, which work with small budgets, yet try to present different points
of view from different perspectives, like Indy Media, Community Radio, Free
Speech TV, Democracy Now, South End Press, and Alternative Radio.
Barsamian is a radio producer, journalist, author, and
lecturer. He co-authored several books with Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad,
Edward Said and others.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress