[EL] Fwd: MEDIA ADVISORY - Panel: Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign - Friday at 9:30 am

[Rick Hasen]

Too bad this is at the same time as the GW conference.



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Subject: 	MEDIA ADVISORY - Panel: Dark Money, Media and the 2012 
Campaign - Friday at 9:30 am
Date: 	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:02:33 -0500
From: 	Liz Bartolomeo <lbartolomeo at sunlightfoundation.com>
Reply-To: 	<lbartolomeo at sunlightfoundation.com>
To: 	Richard Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>



Hi. Sunlight Foundation, Common Cause, Free Press and the New America 
Foundation are participating in a panel discussion on Friday morning 
about dark money, media and the 2012 Campaign. You can RSVP for the 
event here 
<http://organizing.sunlightfoundation.com/page/m/64f58976/28885e2d/33c4b610/6800943a/2585319772/VEsH/>or 
check out the live stream at the same link on Friday.

A full advisory is below.

Best,
Liz


    *MEDIA ADVISORY - Panel: Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign -
    Friday at 9:30 am*

The first presidential campaign since the 2010 Supreme Court's Citizens 
United decision resulted in the most expensive election season ever, 
including anonymous and unaccountable donors who poured in unprecedented 
amounts of money. While new media, newspapers and radio collected some 
of this money, the lion's share ended up in the bank accounts of 
television broadcast companies. For months the public was bombarded with 
a tsunami of ads from political campaigns, super PACs and other shadowy, 
outside groups.

Aside from creating windfall profits for broadcasters in swing states, 
what impact did dark money have on democratic discourse in the 2012 
election at the state and the national level? With so much money in the 
mix can media really fulfill its role to watchdog politics and separate 
fact from fiction? Is there evidence that Citizens United needs to be 
overturned? Have new rules to improve broadcaster transparency and 
disclosure helped? And are there other reforms that need to be on the 
table before the next election season?

The panel will discuss these issues with an audience Q&A to follow. It 
is open to the media. Members of the public can RSVP online 
<http://organizing.sunlightfoundation.com/page/m/64f58976/28885e2d/33c4b610/6800943a/2585319772/VEsE/>*.*

*WHAT: *  Dark Money, Media and the 2012 Campaign panel discussion

*WHEN: *Friday, November 16

*TIME:* 9:30 AM -- 12:00 PM

*WHERE:*
New America Foundation Conference Room
1899 L St NW, suite 400
Washington, DC, 20036

*WHO:*

/Panelists include:/

  * *Michael Copps*, former FCC Commissioner and Special Advisor to the
    Media and Democracy Reform Initiative at Common Cause
  * *Craig Aaron*, President and CEO, Free Press
  * *Ellen Miller*, Co-founder and Executive Director, Sunlight Foundation
  * *Jason Reifler*, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science,
    Georgia State University
  * *Matea Gold*, Reporter, Los Angeles Times

*Mark Lloyd*, Director of the Media Policy Initiative at the New America 
Foundation will moderate the panel.

--
Liz Bartolomeo
Media Director
Sunlight Foundation
lbartolomeo at sunlightfoundation.com
O: 202-742-1520 x226
C: 202-255-2677
www.sunlightfoundation.com
twitter.com/LizBart


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