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LEAGUE FORUMS EDUCATE VOTERS – Representatives of the bedrock of American democracy – libraries and newspapers – discussed "News & Media Literacy: Informed or Influenced?" at a May forum organized by the League of Women Voters of Skagit County. Skagit Valley College librarians Elena Bianco and Libby Sullivan shared slides and asked the same questions they present their students in class at the Mount Vernon program.
They're thinking nationally and acting locally.
Delegates from the Skagit chapter of the League of Women Voters championed a national push to support local journalism and news coverage in Washington, D.C., in June.
The Skagit chapter, in fact, had hosted public forums in Mount Vernon on the status of community journalism – purchasing print advertising to promote those meetings – well before the League of Women Voters of the United States overwhelmingly adopted a position in support of local news at its national convention in Washington, D.C.
Skagit chapter members Jane Vilders and Bev Herbst w...
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