The Media and its Influence
on Public Opinion and Public Policy

Fridays, September 14 - October 12
and Monday, November 26
starting at 2:00 pm
Faith United Methodist Church

• Sept. 14...Newspapers: We Won't Know What We Had 'Til They're Gone [speaker: Candace Page, Burlington Free Press]
• Sept. 21...Going to the Source: Opinion Leaders in First Person [speaker: Fran Stoddard, producer/host, Profile, Vermont Public Television]
• Sept. 28...Dirty Tricks: Media Manipulation During Elections [speaker: Traci Griffith, attorney and faculty member, St. Michael's College]
• Oct. 5...Vermont Up Close: Thirty Years of Vermont History Through the Eyes of One Journalist [speaker: David Moats, editorial page editor of the Rutland Herald, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing, author of Civil Wars: The Battle for Gay Marriage]
• Oct. 12...The Making and Breaking of a Presidential Candidate [speaker: Sam Hemingway, Burlington Free Press]
   
• Nov. 26...The State of the Vermont News Business [speaker: Stewart Ledbetter, Television Journalist]*

* Note: Due to a scheduling conflict, the final lecture in the Media series will be held on Monday, November 26.