MEDIA WATCH: LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AND COMMON CAUSE SCRUTINIZE "MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY" MARCH 19

March 1, 2009 (San Diego)--Channel 10 News Director J.W. August joins Jon Bartholomew of Common Cause on Thursday, March 19 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Tom Ham's Restaurant, 2150 Harbor Island Drive, to discuss the quality of today's media. Following the buffet served at 11:30 a.m., Mr. August and Mr. Bartholomew will look at reasons for declines in freedom of the press in the United States, and then open the discussion to questions from the audience. "

The national and worldwide economic crisis has hastened the demise of newspapers and greatly diminished radio and TV news programming, further limiting the expression of diverse viewpoints," says LWVSD Co-President Norma Damashek. According to Jeanne Brown, LWVSD's Vice-President, "Before we can work on solutions, we need to understand the problem." Reservations must be made in advance, $25 for League members, $30 for non-members. For more information call 858-483-8686 or go to www.lwvsandiego.org/