Discussed. This is 35 minutes. [background chatter] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . I am kimberly cline, president of long Island University. It is fitting that we are here today in the First Amendment lounge of the National Press club that is truly representative of the mission of the polk awards. We have so much to be proud of at long Island University, from our elite experiential learning programs to our worldclass faculty and teachers throughout our university, from the vibrant heart of brooklyn to the 322acre campus on long islands gulf coast area one of the longest lasting and proudest honors is to serve as the home of the george polk awards. This year we commemorate our 70th anniversary of the murder of george polk, who played paid the ultimate price for reporting truth during the greek civil war as a cbs news correspondent. Long Island University created a Journalism Award in 1949 to carry on george polks legacy. And for 69 years it has honor
[background chatter] good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. Can you hear me . I am kimberly cline, president of long Island University. It is fitting that we are here today in the First Amendment lounge of the National Press club that is truly representative of the mission of the polk awards. We have so much to be proud of at long Island University, from our elite experiential learning programs to our worldclass faculty and teachers throughout our university, from the vibrant part of brooklyn to the 322acre campus on long islands gulf coast area one of the longest lasting and proudest honors is to serve as the home of the george polk awards. This year we commemorate our 70th anniversary of the murder of george polk, who played paid the ultimate price for reporting truth during the greek civil war as a cbs news correspondent. Long Island University created a Journalism Award in 1949 to carry on george polks legacy. And for 69 years it has honored journalists who deliver origi
Recognizing those who have promoted Free Expression in areas of speech, the press, religious liberty, and arts and entertainment. Recipients included apple ceo tim cook, u. S. Representative and civil rights leader john lewis, abc for the spares dash before the first reporter Martha Raddatz and Playboy Enterprises founder hugh hefner. This is just over one hour. Good evening, fellow champions of the First Amendment, and welcome to the newseum Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. We are honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work has been the embodiment of Free Expression. Now, standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together, and let me move on to more serious subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter whos here tonight is a genius at this. The problem is, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment, less aye all George Carlin on you. [laughing] and where to keep this di
Welcome to the Second Annual Free Expression awards dinner. Were honored to have you join us tonight to celebrate six men and women whose lives and work have been the embodyment of Free Expression. Standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and let me move on to other subjects. David bradley, a wonderful supporter here is genius at. This the sprob i dont know any jokes. Bt First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do, i gook willed. I mean i asked alexa, i mean i asked siri. About jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology. Of course. There are many stories about someone making a joke of the First Amendment and countless stories about whether the First Amendment does or does not cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and vrabel minorities. The answer by the way is yes, yes, and yes.
Were honored to have you celebrate with us tonight the awards for the six men and women. Now standard speaker protocol calls for me to make a joke at this point. To relax the room, bring us together and go on to more serious subjects. David bradley is the genius at this, the problem, i dont know any jokes about the First Amendment. Unless i go all George Carlin on you. And we have to keep this dinner pg. So i did what a modern person would do. I googled, i mean, i asked alexa, i mean, i asked siri about jokes about the First Amendment. Not much luck there. Not due to the technology of course. There are many stories about some making jokes about the First Amendment and countless stories about whether or not the amendment does cover jokes about mothers in law, police, or various ethnic and racial minorititiy t minorities. The answer, by the way, is yes, yes, yes. I found some possible material from lenny bruce, but i figured we had that material covered already. Seriously, i cant remembe