Posted on Nov 5, 1999

Award-winning writer/director Murray Horwitz will visit

Yulman Theater on Tuesday, Nov. 9, at 1:30 p.m. to discuss “The

triumph of marketing” and how it “has divided the American mass

media audience into ever-narrowing shards of market share.”

“Radio, television and film used to attempt to

bring people together; now, they tend to drive us apart,” says

Horwitz, who currently serves as vice president of cultural programming

for National Public Radio. “There is a fundamental change in the

compact between audience and artist, and a disproportionate increase in

the prominence of the performing arts. The combination portends important

consequences for our democracy, our economy and our world.”