{"id":17768,"date":"2017-05-24T10:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=17768"},"modified":"2017-05-24T10:56:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T16:56:50","slug":"panel-to-discuss-civility-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2017\/05\/panel-to-discuss-civility-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Panel to discuss &#8216;Civility in America&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17770\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 140px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-17770 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Samuel-Boerboom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">MSU Billings<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel Boerboom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cCivility in America,\u201d a panel discussion with two professors, a journalist and a minister, is the next entry in the Billings Public Library\u2019s Civil Conversation Series.<\/p>\n<p>The topic comes on Election Day for the U.S. House seat vacated by Ryan Zinke that will be filled either by Republican Greg Gianforte, Democrat Rob Quist or Libertarian Mark Wicks. Gianforte and Quist have bombarded the airwaves with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of ads, many of them conveying negative messages about the other candidate.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at the library. Panelists will discuss such questions as:<\/p>\n<p>\u2666 What is the bedrock of civility?<\/p>\n<p>\u2666 How have politics and the media shaped civility in society?<\/p>\n<p>\u2666 How has technology changed civility?<\/p>\n<p>\u2666 What are the best strategies to maintain civility?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17772\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 140px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-17772 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jolane-Flanigan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Rocky Mountain College<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jolane Flanigan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The discussion also will include a question-and-answer session with the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Panelists are Samuel Boerboom, an assistant professor in the department of communications and theater at Montana State University Billings and editor of \u201cThe Political Language of Food\u201d; Jolane Flanigan, an assistant professor of communication studies at Rocky Mountain College; the Rev. Mike Mulberry, pastor of First Congregational Church in Billings; and David Crisp, a longtime journalist in Texas and Montana now affiliated with Last Best News.<\/p>\n<div class=\"well\"><div class=\"dfad dfad_pos_1 dfad_first\" id=\"_ad_652\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/mjhWkW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/201703_capeair_variable.jpg\" alt=\"CapreAir_Variable\" width=\"510\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18069\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCivility in America,\u201d a panel discussion with two professors, a journalist and a minister, is the next entry in the Billings Public Library\u2019s Civil Conversation Series. 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