events. it is a fantastic moment for so many of our principals and teachers. it gives us an opportunity to thank them for all they do for our children, our community, and our parents. it is a wonderful thing. we were sitting around and wondering why we never did this, so we are really glad this is the fourth year doing our teacher of the month and our third year doing our teacher of the year. i wanted to thank a few folks really quickly. we have had some fantastic donations to all of our teachers and our principles. they have no idea what we are getting what they are getting today. i am excited to be able to rattle off the price list. we have so many prizes to give. i want to thank linda from comcast and tony from chase. they have been our monetary sponsors. we are really thankful to them for supporting this endeavor we have done. we have so many other sponsors, which are all on the back of your programs and displayed. i saw sammy in the back. if you d donated if you dona
good afternoon. 162 years ago, the first school opened its doors in san francisco. ever since then, we have had wonderful teachers and great administrators. this year is no exception. over the next hour or so, we are going to hear stories about all these wonderful people sitting up here. i would just like to add my congratulations to all of them on behalf of the 162 members of the united administrators of san francisco. thank you. [applause] thank you, jim. another partner of ours is united educators of sentences go. i want to welcome mr. dennis kelly, the president. [applause] thank you all for being here. it is a great honor and a great privilege to be able to recognize the work that all of these good people have done. some of these even the administrators. we have known to the since she was a tiny teacher. it is good to see her pass through and come to this point. it is a wonderful time to be able to celebrate the great work these teachers have done and these princ
[beeping] voice: ready. ready. ready. ready. ready. announcer: it can be a little awkward when your friend tells you he s been diagnosed with a mental illness, but what s even more awkward is, if you re not there for him, he s less likely to recover. i m here to help, man, whatever it takes. voice: ready. thank you so much. i am a are newsom s i am mayor newsom s education adviser. it is an interesting seat at an interesting time. it is my pleasure to do these events. it is a fantastic moment for so many of our principals and teachers. it gives us an opportunity to thank them for all they do for our children, our community, and our parents. it is a wonderful thing. we were sitting around and wondering why we never did this, so we are really glad this is the fourth year doing our teacher of the month and our third year doing our teacher of the year. i wanted to thank a few folks really quickly. we have had some fantastic donations to all of our teachers and our principles.
[unintelligible] the quality of journalism, we feel that all of the people working in poverty, those people are always excluded. especially where corporate mainstream media is concerned. we do this in so many ways and so many forms. the real quality of journalism is the people. even though we are grass roots, always hanging by a thread, we never failed to be heard. i believe that the mayor of oakland said this, for one the government is pretty much run by large media corporations. when you are out there speaking the truth that they do not want to hear, just to make your media especially if you are pointing out your expos that you are exposed. we also believe that in media there should come education. the word minority is a derogatory term. believe it or not. thank you. we have a little bit of time left. i want to make sure all of the audience members are heard. my name is bruce grimes. i am an independent writer and producer of television, going back to rolling sto
maybe we can have broccoli with cheese? i do not think that there is a simple answer. i think that people come to read various news sources. there will be multiple sources. some for entertainment, some for other resources. the key thing about broccoli and in sustaining a democracy, it tells us what we need to know even if we did not need to know it. it is about the role that the journalist plays, telling the community what we did that no we needed to know. cheese, ice cream, it does not matter. that means editors. that means transparency. that means education about media. it means membership of junior journalists. without all of those things, there is no broccoli. no one will tell us what we need to know that we did now know we need to know. on that note we will have to conclude today s town hall forum. we hope that you enjoyed it. it has been presented by the northern california chapter of professional journalism. they ve asked me to express thanks to tonight s panelists