Tag: Journalism
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When President Clinton had just taken office in 1993, Current asked an assortment of outside-the-Beltway people connected with public broadcasting to write open ...This time we let our listeners hear directly from candidates
In fall 1992, a number of public broadcasting’s gatekeepers opened their gates to give candidates unedited, unmediated “free time” to talk with ...Advocates of free time for candidates are many — those who try it are few
Though the 1988 campaign prompted many calls for television networks to let candidates talk directly to the voters, candidates again this season ...Frontline: an ‘essential’ mechanism for telling serious stories
Frontline sometimes comes on like a multimedia prosecutor, revealing the evidence in pictures, voices and logic, and driving toward a conclusion. It’s usually ...
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