Author Josh Nathan Speaks at Event Featuring Film Intro by Leonardo DiCaprio

NannyNoz Books™
www.TooMadtoTrust.com

The Owl's Blog - NannyNoz Books™ is proud to highlight Too Mad to Trust author Josh Nathan who will serve as an expert at the upcoming panel, "Scholars as Critics: A Professional Development Workshop for Academics" http://cmc-centre.com/workshops/nyc2015

Josh is humbled to have been invited by the Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) to serve multiple roles during the conference. Another highlight at this international event is Leonardo DiCaprio's introduction to a new award-winning documentary by filmmaker Veronica Grey: http://cmc-centre.com/pr/nycpr2015/

A CMCS International Conference Series, Bridging Gaps: Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism? starts September 2, 2015, at New York City's Terrace Club. Also featured in the program are Shetal Shah, +Shannon Skinner, Dr. Samita Nandy, and Dr. Jackie Raphael.

Josh also has heads turning when it comes to his latest academic paper, which he will present at the conference.

Implications of Journalism's Tall Tales on a Telling Public tunes into NBC’s former star Managing Editor and Anchor Brian Williams, who returns after six month’s suspension when his credibility came under attack in early 2015. Like dominoes, a host of tall tales told to the American public in his broadcasts seemingly fell one-by-one starting from when he worked as a reporter covering the war in Iraq. The damage to his profession is done. However, Williams’ fate, and future, may still be bright when viewed through the sheer inertia of Maurice Halbwachs’ theory of collective memory. While the  majority of Americans think journalism’s role is more important in society than ever before, the perception that the news is not accurate or fair hit a 30-year low (Pew Research Center, 2013). Unless press tactics change without a public outcry, errors, lies, and biases reported remain rooted in the collective unconscious leading all parties away from any semblance of accuracy as history becomes the exclusive realm for mythic narratives.

Josh Nathan to read
from Too Mad to Trust

Moving away from such a heady subject, but no less important, is that Josh is one of three new authors featured in the conference program when he reads from Too Mad to Trust!

http://cmc-centre.com/pr/nyc-readings/

If you're in the NYC area and don't want to pass up this opportunity, please email celeb.studies@gmail.com. If you want to contact Josh, you can contact him directly via: toomadtotrust@gmail.com or through the book's website, www.toomadtotrust.com.

All of us at NannyNoz Books are quite proud of Josh and this opportunity for him to "wear many hats" at the CMCS conference. WaterHill Publishing, Celebrity Chat, and the Centre for Ecological, Social and Informatics Cognitive Research (ESI.CORE) are also associated with this conference.