"Media Watch Workshop" with Allison Weir 

Mrs. Weir will be discussing different techniques and approaches to assessing bias in the media and ways of effectively mobilizing to correct media bias.

"Ms Weir presents a powerful, well documented view of the Middle East today.

American policy makers would benefit greatly from hearing her first-hand

observations and attempting to answer the questions she poses. This is an

intellectual, thought-provoking, and worthwhile presentation," said former

Congressman and Dean of Haas Business School Tom Campbell.

 Weir, regarded as an expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has spoken

on Capitol Hill, to business leaders, at prestigious thinktanks, and at a

multitude of universities. She had a number of articles published in the

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, online magazines, and in a

compilation on the current uprising entitled, The New Intifada (Verso). She

is a frequent visitor on San Francisco area radio shows, and had an

hour-long speech broadcast repeatedly on C-Span.

ABOUT "IF AMERICANS KNEW"

If Americans Knew is an organization dedicated to providing Americans with

information on topics of importance that are misreported or under-reported

in the media. In addition to providing speakers and organizing informational

forums, If American Knew produces analyses of media coverage of

Israel/Palestine. To date it has completed three six-month studies of

California newspapers. Several studies of prominent national newspapers are

now underway.

 A veteran reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on the work

of If Americans Knew, said, "That sort of specific concrete feedback is

precisely the sort of pressure and feedback that editors need to do their

job better."