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09/14/2008

First Amendment Day lecture to be shown on IPTV

Updated: Mark Goodman Keynote Video freely available online through Iowa Public Television.

AMES, Iowa – The keynote address for the 2008 First Amendment Day at Iowa State University will be broadcast by Iowa Public Television on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m.

The April 10 address was given by Mark Goodman, Knight Professor of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University in Ohio. Goodman’s talk, titled “Censoring Freedom: How the Quest for Security Is Trumping Your Constitutional Rights,” focused on the importance of student press freedom in Iowa.

Goodman, who for 22 years was the executive director of the Student Press Law Center, said Iowa’s high school and college students have a high degree of press freedom. He said that this state of affairs is good for democracy. However, he also warned that protecting freedom of expression for all requires eternal vigilance, since some powers in society would like to see it limited.

First Amendment Day is sponsored by Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication. Goodman’s lecture capped a day of activities, including the Freedom March, the Feast on the First Amendment and a panel on the First Amendment after 9/11.

The televised recording of Goodman’s speech is part of the Intelligent Talk Television series on IPTV Create/World, which can be found on the .3 channel (11.3 in central Iowa, 12.3 in eastern Iowa, etc.). IPTV Create/World is only available to viewers who are watching over the air with a digital television set or a converter box.

His talk was sponsored by the Greenlee School’s First Amendment Day Committee, the Committee on Lectures, the Leo Mores Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Iowa State Daily.

For more information, contact David Bulla at dbulla@iastate.edu.