Television broadcasters have a responsibility to promote democratic participation through ongoing, high-quality coverage of public affairs, elections, candidates and issues. Studies show that broadcasters are not honoring the public interest obligations they accept in exchange for free use of the airwaves.
From the sweltering Mississippi of 1964’s “Freedom Summer” to Washington’s marbled corridors of power to the rough-and-tumble of Illinois politics, Larry Hansen devoted his nearly 50-year career to making American democracy work better. Hansen, vice president of the Joyce Foundation…
The League of Women Voters Minnesota announced Public Policy Coordinator Laura Fredrick Wang will assume the role of Interim Executive Director when Executive Director Keesha Gaskins leaves in January 2011.
Minnesota, Illinois and Ohio are among seven states leading the country in online access to government spending data.A new U.S. PRIG report, “
CHICAGO – In the month leading up to the recent 2006 mid-term elections, local television news viewers got considerably more information about campaigns from paid political advertisements than from actual news coverage, a new study shows. Local newscasts…
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