‘Media in our Lives’ forum Nov. 5

Charles Lewis

3:47 p.m., Oct. 18, 2005--“The Media in Our Lives,” the first program kicking off the second season of Forum USA Delaware, brings together the founder of the Center for Public Integrity and UD grad Charles Lewis; CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer; Michael Powell, former chairperson of the Federal Communications Commission; and Time magazine columnist and CNN political analyst Margaret Carlson for a panel discussion moderated by Ray Suarez, senior correspondent for The News Hour on PBS, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 5, at the DuPont Theatre in Wilmington.

“The Media in Our Lives,” hosted by Wilmington Trust, brings together experienced media and political insiders to explore important issues such as drawing the line between news, opinion, and entertainment; legal battles over sources and privacy; the struggle between the media as a business and its unique role as a pillar of American democracy.

Questions about the state of contemporary media and the future of the watchdogs of democracy are sure to be addressed in the Forum USA Delaware, an open, uncensored, unrehearsed and completely spontaneous panel discussion series, founded in Hartford, Conn., in 1992.

Each forum is conducted with a panel of celebrated guests and a moderator. The first half of the program is dedicated to open discussion on the evening’s theme and is followed, in the second half, by an audience question-and-answer session.

The forum’s conversations will be continued in various New Castle County Libraries. For more information, call (302) 395-5600.

Remaining programs in the second season of Forum USA Delaware include:

“Getting Education Right,” at 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 23, with Geoffrey Canada, author and president and CEO of Harlem Children's Zone; Wendy Kopp, president and founder of Teach for America; Rod Paige, former U.S. secretary of education, and moderator MSNBC’s Nora O’Donnell; and
“Talking Authors,” with Salman Rushdie and Joyce Carol Oates at 8 p.m., Friday, May 5.

Tickets prices range from $45-$65 and are available at [www.forumusadelaware.org] and through the DuPont Theatre box office at (302) 656-4401, (800) 338-0881 or online at [www.duponttheatre.com].

For more information on Forum USA Delaware, visit [www.forumusadelaware.org].

Photo by Duane Perry

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