*Past Event
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Date:
March 6, 2007
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Time:
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM; Doors open at 6:00 PM. Reception following the lecture.
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Location:
National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
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Address:
111 N. Central Avenue
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Los Angeles
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90012
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Cross Streets:
1st Street
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Central Avenue
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Find a RideShare
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Transit Directions:
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Driving Directions:
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Region:
Downtown LA
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Phone:
(213) 403-0416
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Admission:
Free
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Accessibility:
Wheel Chair Access
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Website:
www.zocalola.org
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Description:
Walter Lippmann and John Dewey argued over the character and quality of American democracy in the 1920s with each offering devastating but almost perfectly oppositional critiques. In many ways, they were both correct, but the problems each identified have only metastasized. The media is supposed to be the watchdog of democracy as well as our surrogate in its practice. This idea was always an idealized one, but increasingly it has become more and more difficult to sustain if one looks at the cold hard reality of both our media and our political system. Eric Alterman, prolific author, media critic, and columnist for The Nation, visits Zócalo to explore the emergence of what he calls America’s "pseudo-democracy."
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Submitted By:
Zócalo Public Square Lecture Series
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