State of Journalism in Orange County

Irvine -- On the Subversity show 4 June 2007, we talked with a newspaper editor, a publisher, and a communications professor/former journalist about the state of journalism in Orange County.The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Orange County, and is webcast simultaneously via kuci.org.

Orange Coast Voice Editor John Earl, CSU Fullerton Communications Prof. Jeffrey Brody and The District and former OC Weekly publisher Will Swaim discussed reportage and journalism in the OC with show host Daniel C. Tsang. Earl, a former KUCI Public Affairs Host ("The News Gap") and a former area reporter, edits the independent monthly Orange Coast Voice, which covers Costa Mesa and Huntington Beach. Brody is a former Orange County Register reporter who is best known for his coverage of Little Saigon. Will Swaim is founded the OC Weeky before taking some of the staff to The District in Long Beach.



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Jimmy Carter on Palestinian Rights

On our May 21, 2007 show, we aired the 3 May 2007 talk given by former President Jimmy Carter at UC Irvine, where he defended Palestinian rights and attacked Israel's lobbyists in the U.S. for stifling discussion of this topic. The talk had been aired live on KUCI when he came to campus a few weeks ago.

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There is also a transcript of Carter's talk.

More information on his talk at: http://www.socsci.uci.edu/events/carter/.

The full audio of the event is here: http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/611/carter5-3-07.mp3.

Anthropologist Joe Carrier on Vietnam's Central Highlanders

In connection with a new exbibit on Vietnam's Central Highlanders opening at UCI's Langson Library, on the next Subversity show (May 14, 2007 at 9 a.m.) on KUCI, we talk with anthropologist Joe Carrier, whose photos taken during the Vietnam War and more recently form a major part of the exhibit, "Surviving War, Surviving Peace: The Central Highlanders of Vietnam."


We talk with Carrier about why he took the photos of the Central Highlanders, their plight during various wars and and more recently, the role of various regimes, and the responsibilities of an anthropologist in documenting people in cultures different from one's own.


A reception and panel discussion in connection with the exhibit will take place Tuesday 15 May at 5:30 p.m. at UCI's Langson Library. For more information, see: www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/new/exhibit_spr07.html .


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Actor Dustin Nguyen

Irvine -- On our next edition of Subversity, a KUCI public affairs program, we take a look at the Visual Communications' Asian Pacific Film Festival, currently under way in Los Angeles. URL: http://www.vconline.org/.

We talked with actor Dustin Nguyen, who attended Orange Coast College, went on to act in 21 Jump Street, as well as many other films, the latest three showing at the VC Film Festival, two made in Vietnam. See press release for details. To listen to the show, click here:

Nationalism in Vigils: How about a Vigil for those killed in Iraq?"

On our 30 Aril 2007 show, we chat with UCI anthropology graduate student Philip Grant, whose research is on Iran, about why he wrote the UCI Chancellor Michael Drake, to challenge UCI on why Drake's email to UCI evoked "our nation" as being in "deep sorrow." How about those not of this nation, Grant asked. See press release. To listen to the show, click here:

Orange County's Dust of Life [Bui Doi]

Dust of Life Actor Devon Duy Nguyen with Director Le-Van Kiet. Photo © Daniel C. Tsang 2007

On our next show, we talk with the director of a new film that will the showing at the closing night of the Vietnamese International Film Festival in Orange County. VIFF is in its third edition: http://www.vietfilmfest.com. Featured this year are five films from Vietnam as well as films from the Vietnamese diaspora the world over.

On Monday, we talk with film director Le-Van Kiet about his film, Dust of Life (Bui Doi) about why he chose to bring to the screen the fraught lives of Vietnamese youth in 1990s Orange County.

The show airs from 9-10 a.m. on 16 April 2007 on KUCI, 88.9 fm in Irvine, California, and via the Internet on kuci.org.

Dust of Life will be screened on Sunday, April 22, 2007 at UCI, HIB 100, at 7 p.m., as VIFF's closing night film. For more info., see the VIFF website: http://www.vietfilmfest.com/.

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Dorothy Fall on Vietnam War Journalist Bernard Fall

On our next show, Monday, March 12, 2007, we talk with author Dorothy Fall about her book on her husband, Bernard Fall, whose scholarly works, Street Without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, on the French disaster in the Vietnam War, are classics. He predicted that the U.S. would be unable to win the war politically, even if it had superior military power. The book is Bernard Fall: Memories of a Soldier-Scholar (Potomac Books).

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