New York, November 21: American Hellenic Media Project Presentation

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You are invited to a presentation:

MISOGRAECISM IN OUR NATION'S PRESS, MEDIA AND ACADEMIA -- AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE OF BIGOTRY AND DISINFORMATION IN THE SERVICE OF A SINISTER FOREIGN AGENDA

When: Thursday, November 21, 1996 / 7:15 PM

Where: Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church 108 Warner Ave. Roslyn Heights, Long Island, NY Tel: (516) 625-0900

Presented by P.D. Spyropoulos, Director, American Hellenic Media Project

Appended below is the program outline for the presentation. For information on obtaining the detailed 150-page lecture booklet, please e-mail a query to ahmp@hri.org.

I N D E X

I. Brief Biographical Statement of the Lecturer (1) Selected Excerpts from "The Pillars of Hercules" (2) "Bored Among the Ruins", NY Times Book Review

II. Prologue

III. Misograecism In Our Media

(1) "The Image of Armenia and Greece in the American Press" by Marjorie Housepian Dobkin

(2) Tribune-Review article "The President's Greek Boy, George Stephanopoulos"

(3) Selected Excerpts from "Europe Through The Back Door", by Rick Steves & quote from Time Magazine, "The Master Road Show".

(4) Letter to The Editor of The Washington Times by the VP of the Ataturk Society - AHMP response

(5) "Ethnic politics, Washington style", by Raymond Bonner of The NY Times - Two AHMP responses

(6) "Balkan Stepchild", NY Times Op-Ed by Saso Ordanoski

IV. Dissociating The Modern Greeks From Their Past: The Fallmerayer Myth

(1) The Daily Telegraph and AHMP response (reprinted from The Greek American Monthly)

(2) The Financial Times - AHMP response & Response from the Financial Times Editor

(3) Entries from Microsoft Encarta CD-Rom Encyclopedia: Ptolemaic Dynasty, Macedonia

(4) Excerpt from "A History of Macedonia", by R. Malcolm Errington

V. "The Abduction Of Athena": Appropriating The Achievements Of The Ancient Greeks

(1) "Rescuing The Greeks", by Glen Bowersock - AHMP response

(2) "When Pretension Reigns Supreme" The NY Post

(3) Entries from Microsoft Encarta CD-Rom Encyclopedia: Cleopatra, Library of Alexandria

VI. The Lie Is Worse Than The Crime: The Rewriting of Modern Greek, Armenian, Turkish, and Asia Minor History

(1) "Turks Unleash Propaganda Offensive" from The GreekAmerican

(2) "The nearest successful example of collective denial in the modern era" selected quotes from Law and Social Inquiry, by Stanley Cohen. Paid Advertisements

(3) "The World's Largest Open Air Museum", NY Times Ad

(4) "Turks Like You", "Homer was born in Izmir", NY Times Ad

(5) "Turkey, Part of The European Mosaic, Time Magazine Ad - AHMP response

(6) NY Times Ad denying Armenian Genocide

(7) NY Times Ad by The U.S. Council for Human Rights in the Balkans

(8) The Washington Post, "The Torture That Turkey Fails to Advertise" Planted Articles

(9) "Let's Talk Turkey", NY Post

(10) The Baltimore Sun, article by Jonathan Power "Academia For Sale"

(11) "New Professorship Established in Turkish Studies", The Harvard Gazette

(12) "Critics Accuse Turkish Government Of Manipulating Scholarship", The Chronicle of Higher Education

(13) "Princeton Is Accused of Fronting For the Turkish Government", The NY Times

(14) "Turkish Largess Raises Questions", The Boston Globe

(15) Protest ad by prominent writers and scholars against Turkish denial

(16) Entries from Microsoft Encarta CD-Rom Encyclopedia: Turkey, Armenia (region & republic).

(17) AHMP article to NY Times addressing Turkish revisionism

(18) "Future Meltdown" . . . ancient civilizations: Turkish, Chinese, Persian, Hindu and Buddhist", NY Times book review of Robert Kaplan's "A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century" - AHMP response

VII. "Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth" - Biased and Inaccurate Reporting

(1) "Greece's treatment of its own Macedonians has over the years been less than admirable", Foreign Affairs book review of Loring Danforth's "The Macedonian Conflict"

(2) "Greece's Defense Seems Just Silly", by Strobe Talbott, Time Magazine

(3) "Nationalism and Before", by Martin Peretz, The New Republic - Two responses by AHMP

(4) "Stephanopoulos Odyssey or Guilt By Association", The Wall Street Journal

(5) "Deadly Gifts to Greece and Turkey - Allies who act increasingly against US interests" NY Times Editorial

(6) "Separation In Cyprus", The Wall Street Journal - AHMP response

(7) The Imia Crisis: quotes from the press and a response from AHMP

(8) Conversations With My Father, Ethnic-bating on Broadway

(9) Entries from Microsoft Encarta CD-Rom Encyclopedia: Cyprus

(10) TWA Flight 800, Time Magazine - AHMP press release

(11) "Greek Spy Agency Tied to Terror Group - Greece a State Sponsor of Terrorism", The Washington Times - AHMP response

(12) "Greek Lawyer Pleased to Defend Serb Leader", NY Times - AHMP response

(13) American Hellenic Media Project Information Letter

VIII. Epilogue

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