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Action Coalition on Media Education (ACME) convenes its national conference this October 6 -8 in Burlington, Vermont, and registration has begun on ACME's website. Dozens of presenters will include Amy Goodman, Bill McKibben, Jean Kilbourne, Robert Jensen, Jerome Armstrong, Carrie McLaren, Jeff Chester, Sut Jhally, Bob McCannon, Diane Wilson, Josh Silver, Peter Phillips, Anthony Riddle, Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Hannah Sassaman, Pete Tridesh, and Sara Voorhees. CMD's John Stauber will deliver one of the keynotes titled "What’s Reality? Fake News, Real News and Weapons Of Mass Perception." Stauber will examine the Lincoln Group's planting of fake news in Iraq and other issues in The Best War Ever, the new Rampton/Stauber book to be published on September 14.