Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody: The Role of Media and the Future of Democracy

media release: Please join us for an engaging conversation on the importance of an independent and impartial media to the proper functioning of a free and democratic society. Lawyer and author Ian Rosenberg will sit down with Prof. Emeritus Donald Downs, a leader in the areas of free speech and academic freedom as the two discuss Rosenberg’s latest book, Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody and the broader responsibilities media in the United States have to informing the electorate with honest and non-partisan reporting.

Welcoming remarks will be delivered by Dean Dan Tokaji, a leading authority in the field of election law, voting rights, free speech, and democratic inclusion.

This event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Exchange, the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the Elections Research Center, the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.