Showing posts with label the media. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the media. Show all posts
Monday, April 29, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Citizen Hearst” (American Experience)

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An anecdote about the movie “Citizen Kane” (made by Orson Welles in 1941) In 1941, Orson Welles released a film called “Citizen Kane,” whi...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

A review of PBS’s “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People”

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The “Pulitzer Prize” was named after the great newspaper editor Joseph Pulitzer … In 1917, six years after the death of Joseph Pulitzer, the...
Monday, October 30, 2023

A review of PBS’s “War of the Worlds” (American Experience)

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Note: This post contains some science-fiction images, which are used to dramatize the story. Thus, not all of the pictures in this particula...
Friday, July 10, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio” (PBS)

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Sometimes these three men were friends … At other times, they were cutthroat business rivals The filmmaker  Ken Burns  became famous whe...
Monday, August 28, 2017

The First Amendment: Protecting freedom of speech and freedom of the press

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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - Evelyn Beatrice Hall , in a statement o...
Monday, September 7, 2015

My experience with communications

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"The use of language begins with imitation. The infant imitates the sounds made by its parents; the child imitates first the spoken l...