Lectures tagged "Civic Discourse"

Lewis Lapham: Mixed Media
Lewis H. Lapham
April 29, 2009
00:58:49
Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham observes that the media these days speak in so many forked and foreign tongues - film, book, video game, broadcast, blog - that without a dictionary or a concordance it is hard to know who is saying what to whom.
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Charles Burnett
April 2, 2009
00:46:24
The creators of the 2003 documentary Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property discuss their film, which analyzes Nat Turner's slave rebellion of 1831 and its aftermath in American memory.
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Take Back the Media: Policy, Protest, and Protecting American Democracy
Josh Silver
March 31, 2009
00:54:36
Josh Silver argues that the media policies made in Washington, DC are the cause of corporate programming on radio and TV, fake news that fails to inform, slow, overpriced Internet service, and struggling public media.