{"id":18558,"date":"2017-11-06T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=18558"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T14:48:52","slug":"18558_nbc-s-col-jack-jacobs-to-speak-at-montclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/2017\/11\/06\/18558_nbc-s-col-jack-jacobs-to-speak-at-montclair\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC&#8217;s Col. Jack Jacobs to Speak at Montclair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Wednesday, November 15 at 7:30 p.m.<\/span><\/span>, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/scm\">School of Communication and Media at Montclair State<\/a><\/em><strong>\u00a0[SCM] <\/strong>will host a conversation with <strong>NBC News Military Analyst <\/strong>and<strong> Medal of Honor Recipient Col. Jack Jacobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Colonel&#8217;s discussion, <em><strong>Covering the Military in the Age of Political Divide<\/strong><\/em>, will be moderated by SCM Director Dr. Keith Strudler.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this conversation, Jacobs will cover the ongoing challenge of providing fair and unbiased media coverage of military operations in a polarized political and media environment.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jacobs regularly appears on programs such as <strong><em>The Today Show<\/em>, <em>The 11th Hour with Brian Williams<\/em>, <\/strong>and<strong> <em>The Rachel Maddow Show<\/em>,<\/strong> among many others. In addition to his Medal of Honor, Jacobs has received three Bronze Stars and two Silver Stars.\u00a0Jacobs is the co-author of\u00a0<em><strong>If Not Now, When?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0a book that looks back at his own military service and ahead to America&#8217;s future, and served on the faculty at\u00a0the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the National War College in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public. <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/msusurveys.montclair.edu\/index.php\/717926\/lang-en\" target=\"_blank\">Register now to attend<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 12.8px;\">\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/calendar\/view-event.php?id=48591\" target=\"_blank\">visit the event page<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>You can also contact SCM at\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"tel:973-655-5214\" target=\"_blank\">973-655-5214<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us on November 15 for a discussion about politics and the military<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":118558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-of-communication-and-media-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207945,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18558\/revisions\/207945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/college-of-communication-and-media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}