The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media

a conversation with ALEX JONES and CHARLES SENNOTT

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Date

Jan

Wednesday
January 28, 2015
8:00 PM ET

Location

FPC Parish House
3 Church St., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

Tickets required (details coming soon!)

Cambridge Forum presents "The Health of Democracy: The Role of the Media."

A free press and public access to information and a broad range of ideas and opinions were considered so essential for a healthy democratic republic that the Founders included protection for freedom of the press in the First Amendment to the Constitution. ALEX JONES, director of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and CHARLES SENNOTT, founder of Global Post and The GroundTruth Project, assess how today’s press—print and electronic—is carrying out its mission. Where do current threats to a free press come from? How can citizens inform themselves in today’s media environment?

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