{"id":44255,"date":"2021-10-04T16:54:01","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=44255"},"modified":"2021-10-04T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T21:54:01","slug":"the-first-amendment-and-diversity-a-marketplace-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2021\/10\/04\/the-first-amendment-and-diversity-a-marketplace-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Amendment and Diversity:\u00a0A Marketplace Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featuring <\/span><\/b>S. Jenell Trigg, Esq.<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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October 26, 2021\u00a0Live-Streamed Event at 7:00 p.m. CDT<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u00a0NOTE: Due to the recent rise in Covid cases, <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

this year’s Lecture is being offered as an online event only.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Billions of people use social media platforms and have access to a 5000-plus-channel streaming and broadcasting universe, yet citizens are less informed than ever before. They select their preferred sources, often based on ideology and politics, but rarely seek out media options that challenge their preconceptions. Coupled with the lack of diversity in \u2018media\u2019 ownership and management, it appears that the concept of a robust \u2018marketplace of ideas\u2019 in today\u2019s America has failed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Can we change this? Diversity in the media by itself is not enough to elevate and reinvigorate the national conversation. But without welcoming disparate and even antagonistic voices, how can we hope to mitigate polarization and advance the core purposes of the First Amendment?<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Oct. 26, 2021, the <\/span>Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law<\/span><\/a><\/span> will present the 36th Annual Silha Lecture, \u201c<\/span>The First Amendment and Diversity:\u00a0A Marketplace Failure?\u201d\u00a0Our speaker is <\/span>S. Jenell Trigg, Esq., CIPP\/US, Chair of Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Practice Group, and Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Lerman Senter PLLC, Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

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S. Jenell Trigg\u2019s remarkable career in media and law, as well as her volunteer experience working with numerous nonprofit groups, gives her unique insight into current issues of diversity and free speech. She began as a broadcast television sales and marketing executive whose advertising career spanned 16 years in the Chicago and Baltimore markets. Ms. Trigg then earned her law degree magna cum laude<\/i> from The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.<\/span><\/p>\n

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She worked at the Federal Communications Commission and as Assistant Chief Counsel for Telecommunications in the Office of Advocacy, U. S. Small Business Administration, before becoming the first African-American partner at Lerman Senter PLLC in Washington, D.C. She has been nationally recognized for her longstanding dedication and commitment to promoting minority, women, and small business ownership and employment in the media and communications industries, receiving lifetime achievement awards from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Multicultural Media, Telecom, and Internet Council.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The 36th Annual Silha Lecture is sponsored by the Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. It will be live-streamed on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021, beginning at 7:00 p.m. CDT. The lecture is free and open to the public, but advance <\/b><\/span>registration<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/span> is required.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Silha Center activities, including the annual Silha Lecture, are made possible by a generous endowment from the late Otto and Helen Silha. For further information, please contact the <\/span>Silha Center<\/span><\/a><\/span> at 612-625-3421 or silha@umn.edu<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featuring S. Jenell Trigg, Esq. \u00a0 October 26, 2021\u00a0Live-Streamed Event at 7:00 p.m. CDT \u00a0 \u00a0NOTE: Due to the recent rise in Covid cases, this year’s Lecture is being offered as an online event only. \u00a0 Billions of people use social media platforms and have access to a 5000-plus-channel streaming and broadcasting universe, yet citizens … <\/p>\n

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