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To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?
Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an "outrage industrial complex" that prospers by setting American against American, creating a "culture of contempt"—the habit of seeing people who disagree with us not as merely incorrect, but as worthless
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"Social justice work, we often assume, is raised voices and raised fists. It requires leading, advocating, fighting, and organizing wherever it takes place--in the streets, slums, villages, inner cities, halls of political power, and more. But what does social justice work look like for those of us who don't feel comfortable battling in the trenches? Sensitive souls--including those who consider themselves highly emotional, empathic, or introverted--have...
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The Great Depression crashed upon America in 1929. This program profiles Herbert Hoover, president from 1929 to 1933, and Huey Long - governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932, senator from 1932 to 1935, presidential hopeful, and victim of assassination - murdered at the height of his popularity.
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Does the Internet poison politics and civic engagement? Some argue that the proliferation of online sites, blogs, and web-based outlets has expanded consumers' access to a wide range of information, but others contend that despite this, most people tend to rely on narrow, one-sided sources that reinforce rather than challenge their political views. And some sites, they add, have an extreme or mean-spirited edge to them. Is the rise of the Internet...
48) Modern Presidential Campaigns: Volume 4Packaging the Candidates, Images & Sound Bites (1980 - 92)
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This fourth volume - "Packaging the Candidates: Images & Sound Bites" (1980 - 92) - moves from Ronald Reagan's successful media campaigns to Clinton's use of the "change" issue to overcome the Bush advantage of incumbency.
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What are the long-term effects of journalism scandals? When the public's trust is damaged, what can the Fourth Estate do to repair it? And how is technology affecting journalism in the 21st century? To speak to those points, this ABC News program turns to recent cases such as the notorious 60 Minutes Wednesday incident involving George W. Bush's national guard record. Two related journalistic issues are also discussed: the growing influence of new...
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From mud-slinging ad campaigns to the public airing of dirty laundry, the words coming from America's political class in recent years have done more to disillusion than inspire. At what point will cynicism, indignation, or outright anger cause substantive changes in the guidelines for attaining-and remaining in-office? This program appraises the alarming decline in popularity of politics among the electorate and suggests possible approaches to restoring...
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In this age of texting and tweeting, finding out what happens in American politics is as simple as checking your cellphone. Not so 236 years ago when leaders of America's 13 original colonies met in a hot room in Philadelphia and decided to break their ties with Britain. On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the text of the Declaration of Independence--the "Dear George" letter, if you will-by which the colonists told the British, "We...
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On this Fourth of July, the most American of holidays, NewsHour's Ray Suarez speaks with Denise Kiernan and Josephe D'Agnese, authors of the book, "Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence," about what happened to the men who affixed their names to the historic document. Origina?
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This portrait of the Democratic nominee for President who twice lost to Eisenhower traces Adali Stevenson's career from Governor of Illinois to UN Ambassador. In the process, it illuminates a whole political era in post-World War II American history and explores themes that remain predominant in politics today: the American ambivalence toward intellectuals in politics, anti-liberalism, the electorate's preoccupation with the personality of politicians,...