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PBS POLITICAL ANALYST TO DELIVER MEDIA LECTURE AT UM
MISSOULA- The University of Montana will host a medra lecture by nationally syndrcated column,st
Mark Shields at 7:30 p m Monday, Dec. 8, in the Umversrty Theatre.
Shields, a politic*, analyst for “The NewsHour w,th Hm Lehrer," will dehver the thtrd
annual Montana PBS Med,a Lecture in a senes supported by Montana broadcast proneer loe
Sample. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Shields provrdes political commentary opposrte Davrd Brooks of The New York T,mes
on .‘The NewsHour.” He began his career as a Washington insider, serving as a leg,slat,ve
assistant to U.S. Sen. William Proxmire of Wisconsin. He ran Sen. Robert Kennedy
campaign for president in 1968 and later worked on presidential campaigns for Sargent Shriver
and Edmond Muskie. In 1979, Shields joined the editorial board of The Washington Post and began writing a
column that is now syndicated nationally. He first appeared on “The MacNe.l/Lehrer Report” in
1988, contributing to the political coverage that won the program a Peabody Award that yea,.
Shields also has provided news analysis fo, CNN, CBS and NBC.
The Montana PBS Media Lecture series presents speakers who explore the impact
changing media landscape. The series is made possible by funding from Billings resident Joe Sample, who was instrumental in bringing the first television network signal to Billings and later bought a group of television stations across Montana to form the Montana Television Network.
Sample has been a longtime supporter of public television in Montana, donating the antenna that
KUSM-TV used to start Montana PBS service in the Bozeman area in 1984.
Montana PBS is a collaborative, statewide service of KUFM-TV at UM in Missoula and
KUSM-TV at Montana State University in Bozeman.
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