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Critics complained that Sanders was not truthful with the press and undercut the role of journalists to inform the public. The event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum in Yorba Linda featured Robert Gibbs, who served as Obama’s press secretary, and former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose invitation sparked criticism and support from throughout the Chapman community. The center formally launched with a debate on the role of media in American politics, partnering two former press secretaries from the Trump and Obama administrations.

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“Our goal is to advance a free media while at the same time monitor and challenge the media bias and assaults on free speech. “Free speech in America is at a crossroads, and the battleground for its future exists on college campuses and in the (media) outlets,” said Lisa Sparks, dean of the School of Communication, where the center is housed.

The center is essential and timely, said the center’s dean, speaking at its November launch event. Fiery rhetoric shuts down controversial speakers on university campuses, bipartisanship discussions seem like a quaint notion from days of yore, and every morning dawns with a commotion of social media that passes for vetted news.Ĭhapman University’s new Center for Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity steps into this noisy national conversation with a mission to advance civil discourse.

Things have grown a bit raucous out in the public square lately.

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