A Big Story Missed: The Posse Comitatus and Insurrection Acts and the Mainstream Media (Rutgers Experts)

June 19, 2007

A BIG STORY MISSED: THE POSSE COMITATUS AND INSURRECTION ACTS AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA

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The U.S. Congress, in passing the Defense Authorization Bill last fall, also amended two long-standing laws governing the use of the armed forces and National Guard. Robert Kubey, director of the Center for Media Studies at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has conducted research showing that the mainstream news media havent reported on this story, even though the new law is strongly opposed by law enforcement and military associations. His research on the media coverage of these revisions and efforts to undo them has just been published in Extra!, the journal of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and can be found here:

MEDIA AND POLITICS

ROBERT KUBEY is a professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers, and director of the Center for Media Studies. His latest book is Creating Television: Conversations with the People Behind 50 Years of American TV. His other books include Media Literacy in the Information Age and Television and the Quality of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience (co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi). In addition to his scholarly writing, Kubey has written articles for Scientific American, the New York Times and Newsweek. He can be reached at (732) 932-7500, Ext. 8164, or by email at kubey@scils.rutgers.edu.

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND LEGAL HISTORY

MARK S. WEINER is a professor at the Rutgers School of Law in Newark. Professor Weiner is the author of Black Trials: Citizenship from the Beginnings of Slavery to the End of Caste (2004), which was selected a 2005 Silver Gavel Award winner by the American Bar Association.. His latest book, Americans without Law: The Racial Boundaries of Citizenship (2006), was awarded the President's Book Award by the Social Science History Association. He can be reached at (203) 776-8141, or by email at mweiner@kinoy.rutgers.edu.

Contact: Ken Branson

732-932-7084, Ext. 633

E-mail: kbranson@ur.rutgers.edu

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