Scholars, preservationists, archivists, museum educators and curators, fans and the public are meeting in late April in the nation’s capital to figure out how to preserve broadcasting’s history.
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Today’s anchors on politically slanted news programs feed anger and polarization with their wild claims. Their ancestor is a character from ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ – with one big difference.
When the current crisis passes, we must seize the opportunity to re-imagine, and to create, a different kind of future.
When Vice President Spiro Agnew gave a speech in 1969 bashing the press, he fired some of the first shots in a culture war that persists to this day.
Violence against journalists is on the rise. Many people don’t realize that such acts have a long tradition in the US, where partisan rancor was once a hallmark of American journalism.
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Film and Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Minnesota Duluth
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Professor and Head, Dept. of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia
