October 13, 2009

Media Availability -- Thomas Patterson

Nationally known American political and media scholar Thomas E. Patterson will be available for interviews at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the lobby of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.

Reporters, photographers and camera crews are welcome to cover the event, hosted by David Yepsen, institute director. Patterson will present, “The Small Minded: Politics in the New Information Age,” at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Morris Library’s John C. Guyon Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Matt Baughman, institute associate director, at 618/201-0082.