THBT The Media's Reporting is Detrimental to Humanitarian Crises Around the World | Cambridge Union
► Subscribe for more -- ow.ly/YrWCU ◄ Full videos from Lent Term are being uploaded daily - subscribe so as not to miss out! •14th January 2016. • www.cus.org/ • Follow us on Twitter @CambridgeUnion • www.facebook.com/events/463537343850047/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The recent emotive photos of Syrian migrants are the most recent example of the public’s reaction to a crisis being shaped by the media, but this is something that happens time and time again. The Union asks whether this information stream does any good for those afflicted, or means that frequently many of those most in need are overlooked or forgotten in favour of the latest headline crisis. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Speakers: Greg Barrow - ex-BBC Foreign Correspondant, current Head of World Food Programme, London Office Dr Emma Briant - Sociologist and Political Scientist. Published author Francesca Ebel - Founder of the Nose Project and freelance journalist Dame Barbara Stocking - ex-CEO of Oxfam GB, current President of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge Richard Spencer - Middle East Editor at The Daily Telegraph James Riseley - Cambridge Union Society competitive debater
