Thursday, May 4 at 7:00 pm, Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Hayes Room.
The League of Women Voters and Kellogg Hubbard Library are presenting a five-part series on the First Amendment.
Join us for the first series, a panel discussion on the topic of Freedom of the Press.
Media coverage - print, broadcast, online - keeps us actively engaged and shapes how we see the world. However, Americans trust and confidence in mass media, at 32 percent (Gallup), is at its lowest level. Six in 10 citizens see partisan bias, the President engages in a continual war of disparaging words.
Freedom of the Press, critical to democracy, is protected by the First Amendment. What do we mean by a free press? What are the threats to press freedom?
Panel Discussion & Presentation:
Moderator
Garrett M. Graff, magazine journalist and historian, has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. He's written for publications from WIRED to the New York Times, and served as the editor of the Washingtonian and POLITICO Magazine.
Panelists
Anne Galloway Founder and Editor of VTDigger
Jim Sabataso Freelance writer and Founding Editor of the Rutland Reader
Matthew Byrne, First Amendment lawyer with Gravel & Shea, Attorneys at Law
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