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By Nate Loewentheil
Categories: Fair and clean politics, Framing and language, Government reform, The media The Challenge: The Roosevelt Institution challenges its students to work on ensuring that our media channels remain open and unbiased and that the citizens of the United States retain the rights over their air and radiowaves Important
Progressive: accomplishing this challenge will contribute directly and specifically to the progressive values embodied by Roosevelt's Statement of Principles
Meaningful: our contribution to this challenge will produce a real change in the lives of our fellow human beings. One can imagine a world in which the challenge is solved, and such a world is better than the one we live in today.
Relevant: the challenge is relevant to the social contract project that Roosevelt has embarked upon
Today, media outlets are increasingly owned by a few, large corporations, with increasingly obvious political agendas. The Constitution of the United States grants the media unparalleled freedoms, which in turn incur a responsiblity to truthfully and accurately report on the events of this country and the world. We need to ensure that media channels at every level continue to allow for independent reporting and thinking.
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