John Nichols is the co-author with Robert McChesney of the book, “The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again.” Nichols and McChesney spoke at Town Hall Seattle on Jan. 19, 2010. Nichols is The Nation’s Washington, DC, correspondent and McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sanjay Bhatt videotaped Nichols’ talk and chopped it up into smaller segments to make the content easier to access (and quicker to load). This video was originally posted to AAJASeattle.org. I hope it raises awareness of what we’ve lost and inspires conversations about what we can do collectively to renew and reinvigorate American journalism.
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John Nichols: We have lost 20000 on-air radio news personalities in the past 15 years
John Pilger “The Invisible Government” Part 1/4
The Invisible Government by John Pilger I wasn’t going to mention The Green Berets when I sat down to write this, until I read the other day that John Wayne was the most influential movie who ever lived. I a saw the Green Berets starring John Wayne on a Saturday night in 1968 in Montgomery Alabama. (I was down there to interview the then-infamous governor George Wallace). I had just come back from Vietnam, and I couldn’t believe how absurd this movie was. So I laughed out loud, and I laughed and laughed. And it wasn’t long before the atmosphere around me grew very cold. My companion, who had been a Freedom Rider in the South, said, “Let’s get the hell out of here and run like hell.” We were chased all the way back to our hotel, but I doubt if any of our pursuers were aware that John Wayne, their hero, had lied so he wouldn’t have to fight in World War II. And yet the phony role model of Wayne sent thousands of Americans to their deaths in Vietnam, with the notable exceptions of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Last year, in his acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the playwright Harold Pinter made an epoch speech. He asked why, and I quote him, “The systematic brutality, the widespread atrocities, the ruthless suppression of independent thought in Stalinist Russia were well know in the West, while American state crimes were merely superficially recorded, left alone, documented.” And yet across the world the extinction and suffering of countless human beings could …
Death Penalty Debate (1/8): Ed Koch, Victor Navasky, John O’Sullivan, Christopher Hitchens (1997)
April 7, 1997 www.amazon.com Watch the full debate: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com Edward Irving “Ed” Koch (born December 12, 1924) is an American lawyer, politician, and political commentator who was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977, and a three-term Mayor of New York City, from 1978 to 1989. He also gained fame as a judge on the television show The People’s Court from 1997 to 1999. Victor Saul Navasky (born July 5, 1932) is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was editor of The Nation from 1978 until 1995, and its publisher and editorial director 1995 to 2005. In November 2005 he became the publisher emeritus. Before coming to The Nation he was an editor at The New York Times Magazine and wrote a monthly column about the publishing business (“In Cold Print”) for the Times Book Review. Navasky was born in New York City. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College (1954), where he was Phi Beta Kappa with high honors in the social sciences, and Yale Law School (1959). While at Yale, he co-founded and edited the political satire magazine Monocle. In 1946, when he was in the eighth grade, he helped to raise money for the Irgun Zvai Leumi — by passing a contribution basket at performances of Ben Hecht ‘s play, A Flag is Born. In 1994, while on a year’s leave of absence from The Nation, he served first as a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and then as a senior fellow at the Freedom Forum …