The January 2008 Public Forum Debate topic is not exactly ripped from today’s headlines, so why was it selected? Public Forum Debate Topic Committee chair Tim Averill says it is tied to the upcoming release of the movie, The Great Debaters:
The PFD topic for January represents a collaboration between the NFL and the producers and sponsors of the new Denzel Washington movie, THE GREAT DEBATERS, which was featured by Jon a few days ago under its own thread. The civil disobedience topic is debated in that film. It comes out on Christmas Day as a gift to PFD debaters around the country.
[via Victory Briefs Daily]
Perhaps that tidbit of information should have been included in the topic announcement.
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I think you mean JANUARY 2008 Public Forum topic not December
Wow, what a great “gift”.
Dear NFL: Please stop treating public forum debate and its competitors as marketing tools. Thank you.
I like the tpic..looks fun to me…lol
Yeah now all we have to do is go see the movie. I hate that, it undermines all independent thought.
I wanted to see the movie to begin with so whatever for me. It’ll help me out too…lol