If you don’t have plans for Tuesday evening in Rapid City yet, go hear six smart people talk about “Truth in the News.”
Democracy in Action and the Rapid City Public Library are hosting a panel discussion titled “Truth in the News: Democracy and the Informed Citizen” on Tuesday, July 10, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Meeting Room B in the downtown library at 610 Quincy Street, Rapid City. Discussing journalism and the democratic citizen’s relationship thereto will be the following information peddlers:
- Eric John Abrahamson – Founder & Principal Historian at Vantage Point Historical Services
- Richie Richards – Native Sun News Today Correspondent
- Victoria Wicks – South Dakota Public Broadcasting Freelance Reporter/Producer
- Chynna Lockett – South Dakota Public Broadcasting Reporter
- John Tsitrian – Freelance Writer and Blogger
- Kevin Woster – Reporter and South Dakota Public Broadcasting Blogger
This panel discussion is part of “Democracy and the Informed Citizen,” a joint initiative of the South Dakota Humanities Council and the South Dakota Newspaper Association promoting public trust in the media. ties in with the 2018 One Book South Dakota, Harvard prof and SDSU alumnus Thomas E. Patterson’s Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism, a book that predates the rise of Trump by three years. (The book is 256 pages; you don’t need to finish it—or start it—before Tuesday’s program.)
Ya think they’ll talk about this? A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 74% of Likely U.S. Voters prefer a free market economic system over a socialist system. Only 13% think socialism is a better economic system, and just as many (13%) are undecided. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/july_2018/voters_overwhelmingly_prefer_free_market_to_socialism
It all depends on the question. How many would prefer reasonable regulation of business as opposed to rapacious profiteering??
How many would prefer a reasonable all-access healthcare system as opposed to a profit driven one??
How many would prefer equal pay for equal work ??
How many would prefer a living wage ???
Maybe one day we’ll bring South Dakota into the Twentieth Century ??????
Boy, Cory, the blurb for that book in the link you provided sums up about everything I think is wrong with journalism. I’m going to get that book from my local library.
Rasmussen poll is bent towards wingnuts and are to be ignored same as the troll OldSferbrains.
Cory,
How do we know they are smart people?
Jason, I’ll vouch for Tsitrian, Woster, and Abrahamson personally. The others are smart enough to get jobs in journalism. All are able to secure invitations to this public panel discussion, which the organizers surely want to be an informative event and not a display of drooling. Multiple filters likely keep idiots off the panel.
You are welcome to submit evidence to the contrary, if it really matters to you.
Donald, I agree, the book sounds useful. I might have to join the statewide read.
You should’ve seen Jason playing Army men with his buddies in Denmark. Pretty funny. :0)
I wish I could make it to Rapid City. [Remainder of comment deleted due to irrelevant spamming. —CAH]
Step #1 in being an informed participant in democracy: respecting basic rules of intelligent conversation by not introducing irrelevant topics to the discussion and ignoring those who do try to co-opt discussions to suit their own agendae.