Angotti Speaks to Good Crowd

In spite of March Madness, Joe Angotti, former NBC Nightly News Executive Producer, fielded a crowd of over eighty people last night at the Buchanan Center for the Arts. His address, on the the nature of the news media in the modern world, argued that though the media were often accused of being biased it was actually the viewer's pre-dispositions and perceptions that created the impressions of political slant. In the years that he worked with Tom Brokaw, Angotti noted that they would keep two piles of letters received from viewers. One pile accused the program of being too conservative and the other pile of being too liberal. The funny thing was that over time the piles generally remained about the same height and that gave the producers confidence that their reporting was actually pretty even handed. After his talk Angotti opened the floor to questions for another thirty minutes.

The program was jointly sponsored by the Warren County Library and the Buchanan Center for the Arts.