Friday, June 15, 5-8pm
La Casona, Salida a Celaya 77

Bill Plante, Understanding the political landscape, I3

Presentation, Q&A. Tickets are now available on our tickets page ($250 pesos): Tickets will be http://i3sma.org/tickets/ available 2 weeks before the event at Tienda Tesoros in the Biblioteca for $250 pesos and at the door for $300 pesos

The torrent of criticism aimed at reporters and their media by the President and his White House staff may seem to be without precedent, but it is only the latest – though perhaps most pronounced – in a long history of Executive grievances against the press. Two hundred forty-two years after the Declaration of Independence and 227 years after ratification of the Bill of Rights, tensions remain over the nature and limits of free speech. This talk looks at Presidential discomfort with press coverage from the founding to the present with particular emphasis on the danger posed by current attacks on speech.

Bill Plante was a CBS News Correspondent for 52 years. He was White House correspondent during the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Plante was based in CBS News’ Washington bureau beginning in December 1976 and has covered every Presidential campaign since 1968. He also served four tours of duty for CBS News in Vietnam between 1964 and 1975.

Read more about Bill Plante: https://www.cbsnews.com/team/bill-plante/

Join us!

This event is scheduled at 5:00 PM at La Casona (new convention center on Salida a Celaya). Informal reception to follow, with complimentary botanas and beverages available for purchase.