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Imagine a future where all of Canada’s newspapers, TV, radio and online news outlets have decided to stop reporting on climate change. What if the only source of information you had about this global crisis is coming from a far-right website? That future may be closer than you think.
How well do you understand the damage to our collective psyches by Donald Trump's "chaos-based" government? Steve Katz, publisher of Mother Jones, gave National Observer subscribers an account from the front lines of American journalism at the kickoff event in the "Urgent Conversations" series, held Nov. 16 in Vancouver.
In July 1925, the State of Tennessee put a substitute biology teacher named John Thomas Scopes on trial for teaching children about evolution in the Tennessee public schools.
How can we make sure, in the United States, and Canada, that we continue to have the kind of journalism the moment calls for? Please join Steve Katz, Publisher of Mother Jones, named 2017 Magazine of the Year, and me, Linda Solomon Wood, Editor-in-Chief of National Observer, at 7:30 p.m. on November 16 in Vancouver for a discussion of investigative journalism in the time of Trump.
Ask any person of colour how they feel the day after a terrorist attack. My friends tell me the hate is palpable. We are a much less civil society than we like to think. These are troubled times and tolerance is on the run. To think that we are immune to barbarism is naïve, myopic and dangerous. And journalists are a fundamental safeguard against such a descent. We must recognize them as such.
For years, amid troubling emission data and oil facility failures, they debated whether to share this information with the public. In the end, it was not shared. Until we published it.
