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Special
Programs
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& Benefactors Awards Banquet - 2000 |
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Jeff
Bezos, Robert Johnson Honored
at Friends & Benefactors Awards
Banquet
October
25, 2000
The
Four Seasons Hotel
Washington,
D.C.
Master
of Ceremonies Dick Wiley kept things lively. |
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Washington's Four Seasons Hotel was
again the
venue for The Media Institute's annual Friends & Benefactors
Awards Banquet. This
year's event, held Oct. 25, 2000, honored Amazon.com founder
Jeffrey P. Bezos and BET founder Robert L. Johnson.
Bezos received the
Institute's Freedom of
Speech Award for his role in building Amazon.com into a global
bookseller. With
customers in more than 150 countries, Amazon.com has been a leader
in bringing authors and their ideas to readers around the world, at
times over the objections of local governments.
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Johnson, who founded Black Entertainment
Television in 1980 and is now chairman and CEO of BET II Holdings,
Inc., was honored with the Institute's American Horizon Award.
That award recognizes leadership in promoting the vitality and
independence of American media and communications.
Presenting the Freedom of Speech Award to Bezos
was Tom Brokaw of NBC News. FCC
Commissioner William E. Kennard presented the American Horizon Award
to Johnson.
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Institute
President Patrick D. Maines is flanked by American Horizon
awardee Robert L. Johnson (left) and Freedom of Speech awardee
Jeff Bezos (right). |
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Special
guest Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) of the House Commerce Committee gave
the keynote address. Richard
E. Wiley, communications attorney and former FCC chairman, served as
master of ceremonies.
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