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Shorewood Media & Democracy Forum

6:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 29, 2004

Shorewood Village Center

(Free and open to the public)

SHOREWOOD, Wis. (Nov. 4, 2005) -- In September, two weeks after a presentation before the Board of Trustees by Mike McCabe, director of Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, Shorewood Village President Mark Kohlenberg signed a proclamation declaring November “Media & Democracy Month,” encouraging “village residents, journalists, public officials and editors to inquire together into the historic role of media in democracy, to inquire together, in schools, forums or conversation, whether the current media system strengthens diversity in opinion and democracy and to consider whether media reform is appropriate.”

Following that proclamation, we co-organized with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign a forum scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Nov. 29, 2004, to discuss the issue of whether the media are fulfilling their role in a democratic society, in conjunction with Shorewood’s Media and Democracy Month.

The forum will be held in the Shorewood Village Center, 2010 E. Shorewood Blvd, lower level (corner of North Murray Avenue and East Shorewood Boulevard – one block south of East Capitol Drive and one block west of North Maryland Avenue) in Shorewood.

The panel will be comprised of:

1. Mike McCabe, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign;
2. Prof. Lewis Friedland of the UW-Madison Department of Journalism & Mass Communication (Here’s a link to his bio: (http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/faculty/friedlandbio.html).
3. Prof. David Pritchard, UW-Milwaukee, former chairman of the Journalism program (His bio is here: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/JMC/html/faculty/pritchard.html)
4. Houston attorney Jerry S. Payne, who brought an antitrust case against the Hearst Corporation.

Bob Bach, of the local NPR affiliate WUWM, has agreed to moderate the panel.

For more information, contact us.