Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, was honored with the 2021 Franklin Founder Award during a virtual celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 315th birthday. …
In her acceptance speech, Jamieson spoke about the resilience of democratic institutions in the face of a pandemic, a divisive presidency, ideological polarization, and disinformation. Though current events have shaken our democratic institutions, she said, they “remain durable because we have an independent judiciary that has protected them, and we have individuals who across time have exercised their constitutionally protected freedoms to secure those for others who are left out of the founding documents, and in their use of the mutually reinforcing freedoms of speech, press, petition, peaceable assembly, the increased opportunities to vote … and helped bend the arc of the country’s history towards justice.” CONTINUED
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