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Ford Hall Forum 2019 - The Enemy of the People? Freedom of the Press and Democracy
Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 6:00PM

Modern Theatre
525 Washington St
Boston, MA 02111


“The Enemy of the People? Freedom of the Press and Democracy.” Marjorie Pritchard, deputy managing editor at The Boston Globe, and Professor Bryan Trabold, author of Rhetorics of Resistance: Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa and chair of the Suffolk University English Department, will examine The Boston Globe’s response to President Trump’s efforts to discredit the media. The Globe mobilized editorial boards of all political orientations across the country to argue that a free press is essential for sustaining democracy. This conversation will situate the Globe’s initiative within Ford Hall Forum’s tradition of promoting the free expression of ideas, as when Margaret Sanger, wearing a gag, defied the Boston ban on promotion of birth control in her 1929 address to the Ford Hall Forum and anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naudé delivered a blistering attack on the South African government in his 1985 forum address, despite repeated attempts to silence him. The Boston Globe’s editorial initiative is thus part of a much longer history of challenging the powerful to promote freedom of expression.