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STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

S. Robert Lichter

Robert Lichter is President of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization in Washington D.C., which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.

Dr.Lichter has authored or co-authored thirteen books and numerous articles on media and politics. His most recent books are The Mediated Presidency (with Stephen J. Farnsworth 2006); The Nightly News Nightmare: Network Television's Coverage of the U. S. Presidential Elections (2002); It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Remake the Scientific Picture of Reality (2001); and Peepshow: Media and Politics in an Age of Scandal (2000).His studies have also appeared in such journals as the American Political Science Review, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Journal of Communication, Nature, Journal of the American Medical Association, and New England Journal of Medicine.

His work is frequently cited in the popular press as well as academic venues, and he has appeared on all major network news shows and many other media outlets. He has testified before Congress and in court as an expert witness on media content and effects, and he has served as a consultant to the Voter News Service.

Dr. Lichter holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota. He has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, George Washington University and George Mason University. He has also served as Postdoctoral Fellow in Politics and Psychology at Yale University, Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Smith College.

Daniel Amundson

Daniel Amundson has been the Research Director at the Center for Media and Public Affairs since 1987. His work in media analysis began in 1982. Mr. Amundson holds a B.A. from George Washington University in Sociology and Political Science.

He is co-author with Dr. S. Robert Lichter of Media Coverage of Religion in America 1969 - 1998 (2000), Merchandizing Mayhem: Violence in Popular Entertainment (1999), Government Goes Down the Tube: Images of Government in TV Entertainment (1999), Distorted Reality: Hispanic Characters in TV Entertainment (1994), Media Coverage of the Catholic Church (1991) and The Video Campaign: Network News Coverage of the 1988 Primaries(1988), as well as several other articles and monographs on TV entertainment, science in the news media and media coverage of health issues.

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