Expanded Lookout Event: Let's Talk About Local Journalism
Author Gail Buckland, the speaker, asked that the event be open to all interested in the topic to attend.
A Tri-State Lookout event, “Let’s Talk about Local Journalism,” a presentation and discussion led by author Gail Buckland, will be held on Sunday, October 29, at 1:30 p.m. at Albert Wisner Public Library in Warwick. The event is intended to thank the Lookout’s paid subscribers. Others interested in exploring ideas about local journalism are also invited.
“Journalism at every level – international, national, state and local – is at risk,” says Buckland. “A free and fair press is foundational to every democracy. Perhaps only at the local level, however, can citizens directly help preserve a flow of information that is truthful and beneficial to understanding the issues that need attention and action. What are the local issues that need to be covered to make us better informed citizens?”
Here are some of the questions Buckland says she would like to explore:
“Is there a role for citizen journalists? What is missing in local media and how can we address this? Can we suggest story ideas about things that haven’t happened yet to provide a factual foundation that will preempt misinformation? How to respond to lies, hate, character assassination?
“Are we, as adults, doing enough to help young people discriminate between fact and fiction? Should we, as concerned citizens, be following the money trail – the dark money that is coming into even small communities like ours? And how can small media outlets support themselves financially to continue to do the essential work of democracy?”
____________________________________________________________________________A limited number of new copies of THE AMERICAN CENTURY, cover price $50, will be sold for $25 at the Library as a fund-raiser for Tri-State Lookout.
Gail Buckland worked for 12 years on THE AMERICAN CENTURY with world-renowned journalist and editor Sir Harold Evans and historian Kevin Baker.
Reviews of THE AMERICAN CENTURY:
“A book every family should have.” General Colin L. Powell
"The pictures...are the best collected in any of the books on the century. Some are funny, some harrowing; and their captions can sizzle...This is an honest book. Because it truly cares about America, it is also a patriotic one." - Garry Wills, The New York Review of Books
"A wide-ranging, politically detached view of the shaping events of the century. It is excellent prose, with wonderful pictures. I much enjoyed it, as I think will all." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"The American Century is a major and inspiring synthesis and overview of our history. The scope and breadth are very impressive. It is destined to become an indispensable feature in libraries across the country." - Vartan Gregorian, President Emeritus, New York Public Library
"The American Century brilliantly captures the magnitude and complexities of the century itself. Harold Evans's authoritative and vividly written book is not only history at its best, but it promises to serve as a guide to the future." - Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History
"A magnificent work...The text is lively and insightful. The 900-odd illustrations...skillfully captioned and interwoven with the text, comprise the most gripping and informative visual selection contained in any single volume of Americana...Mr. Evans writes with panache." - The Economist
"This is history with bite, history with attitude, history in the raw...[Evans] writes with a robust, stinging conviction about the downtrodden and about ordinary Americans, whose stories he illuminates with a true reporter's gift for telling detail." - Time
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