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for All campaign
ads available to
educate public on
1st Amendment
The New England
Newspaper and Press Association is joining other news organizations,
newspapers and related 1st Amendment advocates in supporting 1 for All,
an initiative that kicks off July 1 to bolster the American public’s
understanding and appreciation of the five freedoms protected under
the 1st Amendment.
NENPA is making
a series of advertisements created for the 1 for All campaign available
to hundreds of newspapers throughout the region. The ads are aimed at
increasing public awareness about the 1st Amendment, and about the many
ways the five freedoms improve our lives. NENPA is encouraging newspapers
to publish the ads on July 1, when 1 for All’s campaign begins,
and afterward as filler ads.
 “News
organizations have an important mission to not only exercise their 1st
Amendment rights, but to make our news consumers aware of the value
and benefit the 1st Amendment affords in all of our lives,” Dan
Cotter, executive director of
NENPA, said.
“Most of the
freedoms and many of the advantages we enjoy as Americans derive from
the 1st Amendment,” Cotter said. “As direct beneficiaries
of one of the five freedoms protected by the 1st Amendment, and as defenders
and guardians of all five freedoms, news organizations ought to be in
the forefront of trumpeting those freedoms as often and as widely as
possible.
“As Ken Paulson
notes in his column about the 1 for All campaign, it is an appalling
fact that only one in 25 Americans can name the 1st Amendment freedoms,
and most can name only one. If our New England newspapers support it
-- with our broad reach -- a campaign like 1 for All can go a long way
to ensuring that Americans are aware of the Constitutional protections
that, more than any others, safeguard our liberty,” Cotter said.
Please click here to read Paulson’s
column on the 1 for All campaign, and to see and download its
ads.
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