Panel: How Corporate Media Shapes the School Reform Debate

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: 
Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street (26th & Welton)

Democrats for Excellent Neighborhood School Education (DeFENSE) presents:

 

MEDIA BIAS:

How Corporate Media Shapes the School Reform Debate

(and what Progressives can do about it)

 

Wednesday Sept. 15th, 2010

6:00pm?8:00pm

Crossroads Theater – Five Points

2590 Washington Street (26th & Welton)

 

Community members, grassroots journalists and social media activists will shine the spotlight where the mainstream media refuses to go, including:

 

The myth of objectivity in a one-newspaper city

 

·         Corporate media & the Charter School Industrial Complex

 

·         School privatization, gentrification & corporate interests

 

·         Critique of pro-reform  infomercials like “The Lottery” and “Waiting for Superman”

 

·         Grassroots “trouble-makers”  vs. corporate saviors

·         Casting teachers as villains and administrators as heroes

 

·         “Civil Rights”as a corporate slogan

 

·         Strong women facing the Goliath political machine

 

·         Community engagement - the missing link

 

·         Power to the people through grassroots story telling

 

Supporting Organizations: Northeast Community Congress for Education, Colorado Black Round Table, Colorado Progressive Coalition, Black Education Advisory Council, and  the Diverse Neighborhood Collective

For more information or to join the DeFENSE coalition, please contact: democrats4excellentschools@gmail.com