{"id":5850,"date":"2008-03-28T17:01:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-29T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2008-04-02T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T02:21:12","slug":"finding-common-cause-with-common-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5850","title":{"rendered":"Finding Common Cause with Common Cause?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/BradBlog_CommonCause.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">It should be an interesting afternoon. I&#8217;ll be speaking on a panel titled <i>&#8220;Have the media undermined our democracy?&#8221;<\/i> tomorrow (Saturday) at CA <em>Common Cause&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;L.A. Media Reform Summit&#8221; in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t make it, here&#8217;s my written testimony in response to the panel&#8217;s topic: <strong><em>YES!!!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the SoCal &#8216;hood and <i>can<\/i> make it, please come on by and say hello! The panel I&#8217;m on (with Democratic Congresswoman Hilda Solis, National Hispanic Media Coalition organizer Alex Nogales, USC journalism professor Jonathan Taplin, and Pasadena Weekly Editor Kevin Uhrich) begins at 1:45pm, but the opening salvo comes at 1pm from FCC commish Jonathan Adelstein. There some other interesting folks speaking throughout the day as well, including our good friend and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4665\">great patriot, Bree Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Piasaki at <em>Pasadena Weekly<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadenaweekly.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/media_critics_find_common_cause\/5826\/\">good advanced coverage<\/a> with the latest guest list.<\/p>\n<p>More info, sign-up details, and a slightly outdated Guest List can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=dkLNK1MQIwG&#038;b=3833339&#038;tr=y&#038;auid=3425785\">read here<\/a>. The event is at: California Institute Of Technology, Beckman Institute, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapquest.com\/maps\/400+S+Wilson+Ave+Pasadena+CA+91106\/?\">400 S. Wilson, Pasadena, CA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Post-Conference Update:<\/strong><\/em> I think the conference went very well, in many regards. Will try to get some video up shortly so you can decide for yourself&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"BBTOORepost\">Prices now <i>slashed<\/i> in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\"><strong>The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s Fund Drive!<\/strong><\/a> Please support our continuing coverage of your election system, as found <em>nowhere<\/em> else. <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5705\">Click here<\/a> for a number of cool new collector&#8217;s edition Premium products <b>now available starting at just $5!<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be an interesting afternoon. I&#8217;ll be speaking on a panel titled &#8220;Have the media undermined our democracy?&#8221; tomorrow (Saturday) at CA Common Cause&#8217;s &#8220;L.A. Media Reform Summit&#8221; in Pasadena. If you can&#8217;t make it, here&#8217;s my written testimony in response to the panel&#8217;s topic: YES!!!!! If you&#8217;re in the SoCal &#8216;hood and can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,46,188],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-appearance","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}