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Another of the panelists, Bill Kovach, the curator of the Nieman Foundation, provided an answer. He suggested that children should be taught to read the newspapers in order to better informed citizens. In fact, he went as far as to complain that while there are plenty of courses to teach us how to read works of fiction, there is "no course to teach anyone how to read the most important book of their lives: the daily press...
...addition to Adatto, the panel at the ARCO Forum at the Kennedy School of Government included moderator Michael J. Sandel, professor of government; Alvin F. Poussaint, a Harvard Medical School clinical professor of psychiatry, and Bill Kovach, a former journalist and the curator of the Nieman Foundation...
...Kovach ended the presentations by commenting on the increasingly active marketing directed toward today's youth. He charged today's children's and news organizations with embedding motivations to purchase consumer products within the body of information itself...
...Kovach gained the audience's applause by suggesting that children be "taught how to read media critically, the way they're taught how to read works of fiction...
...screening committee (Vogel, Professor of History William C. Kirby, Reischauer Professor of Japanese Studies Susan J. Pharr and Curator of the Nieman Fellowships William Kovach) selected two very obvious questions that were repeatedly asked of Jiang during his tour of the United States. The full list of questions submitted to the committee has not yet been released by the Fairbank Center, contrary to its prior announcement...