Thursday, July 17, 2008

Program to examine China connections with Ky.

Here's an example of how journalists in rural areas and rural states can, and should, explore their connections with other nations. KET will air "Citizen Kentucky/Citizen China: Hope for a New Century," an exploration of the Kentucky-China connection, at 10:30 p.m., Sunday, July 27. The program, sponsored in part by the the University of Kentucky's Scripps Howard First Amendment Center, features a public forum during which speakers focus on four main points: dispelling misconceptions, confronting fears, improving schools and seizing opportunities.

According the show's executive producer, Buck Ryan, the program is the accumulation of a two-year exploration of how Kentucky is connected to China through commerce, education, the arts, religion, adoptions, health care, news and sports. "There is a growing web of connections drawing Kentucky and China closer together day by day," says Ryan, an associate professor of journalism at the UK and director of the Citizen Kentucky Project of the First Amendment Center. "Unlike the 1970s when U.S.-China relations were determined by Nixon and Mao, today the relations are changing through a multitude of interactions by citizens across borders." Read more here and here.

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