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This week, we take a look back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago with media historian Heather Hendershot. She is joined by fellow historian Kevin Boyle to discuss her book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. The following conversation originally took place May 19th, 2024 and was recorded [...]

This week, we take a look back at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago with media historian Heather Hendershot. She is joined by fellow historian Kevin Boyle to discuss her book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America. The following conversation originally took place May 19th, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.

Heather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in MIT's Comparative Media Studies/Writing program. Her most recent book is When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarization of America. She is also the author of: Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line; What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest; Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture; and Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip.  Heather also edited the anthology Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics, and Economics of America's Only Channel for Kids, and she is a former editor of Cinema Journal, the official publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.Heather received her BA from Yale University and her MA and PhD from the University of Rochester.  She has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, Stanford University, New York University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Vassar College, and she has also been a Guggenheim Fellow.You can find her on Twitter here: @ProfHendershotYou can buy your book here: 'When The News Broke'Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JATQPodcastIntragram: https://www.instagram.com/jatqpodcastYoutube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCET7k2_Y9P9Fz0MZRARGqVwThis Show is Available Ad-Free And Early For Patreon supporters here: https://www.patreon.com/justaskthequestionpodcast Purchase Brian's book "Free The Press" Follow Brian's Salon articles! 

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Join Michael in his discussion with historian Heather Hendershot in a discussion of her new book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America, which revisits the TV coverage of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and compellingly argues that this convention was a pivotal moment in American history when the notion of a liberal biased media became mainstreamed and nationalized.

Wednesday on Political Rewind: We turn inward and look at how journalists can cover the 2024 elections responsibly. We also talk about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' plan to announce his presidential run with Twitter's CEO Elon Musk. The panel Heather Hendershot, author, professor of media studies MIT, @ProfHendershot Kevin Riley, editor at large, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, @ajceditor Matt Brown, democracy reporter, The Washington Post, @mrbrownsir Timestamps 0:00 - Introductions 2:00 - How should the media cover politics in a post-Trump era? 13:00 - Breaking down what went wrong with CNN's town hall with Trump. 28:00 - America's history of distrust in the media. 33:00 - The debate around 'objective' reporting. 38:00 - Reporting on MTG and "Cop City." 46:00- Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to announce presidential run with Twitter CEO Elon Musk Thursday on Political Rewind: Emory's Paul Wolpe joins us to talk about AI.

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp's trip to Israel is drawing international attention to a bill to fight antisemitism that failed under the Gold Dome. Meanwhile, a report notes that gerrymandering has left Georgia without a single competitive district. And who will voters blame if the U.S. debt defaults?  The panel: Alan Abramowitz, professor emeritus of political science, Emory University, @AlanIAbramowitz Andra Gillespie, professor of political science and director, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University, @AndraGillespie Tamar Hallerman, senior reporter, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, @TamarHallerman Timestamps 0:00 - Introductions 2:00 - Fulton DA Fani Willis hints an August release for indictments. 12:00 - Kemp's trip to Israel has garnered international attention over a failed bill addressing antisemitism. 22:00 - A report finds Georgia has zero competitive congressional districts. 36:00 - Tim Scott announced his bid for the Republican ticket in 2024. 48:00 - Opinion: Voters don't want Trump or Biden in '24 — Abramowitz Wednesday on Political Rewind: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Heather Hendershot joins the panel for a look inward, as we examine how the media prepares to cover this next election cycle.

Thursday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut speaks to Reverend Doctor Joanna Adams, former Presbyterian pastor and faith leader, on God and prayer as a part of our conversations with Georgia's thought leaders. The panel Reverend Doctor Joanna Adams, former Presbyterian pastor and cofounder, Higher Faith Timestamps 0:00 - Introduction 3:00 - Rev. Adams' story of faith 12:00 - On finding salvation 18:00 - On activism and civil rights 27:00 - On unconditional love and caring for those hurting 38:00 - On 'knowing what time it is' Friday on Political Rewind: In conversation with author Heather Hendershot.

Friday on Political Rewind: Host Bill Nigut sits down with author Heather Hendershot to discuss her book When the News Broke. Hendershot is a professor of film and media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her books include What's Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest and Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. Panelist: Heather Hendershot, professor, MIT, @ProfHendershot Timestamps: :00- Introductions 3:00- What was Chicago like in 1968 6:00- How the media was deemed liberal 15:00- Then Mayor Daley calls for National Guard 24:00- Journalists attacked 26:00- Julian Bond's role in DNC 35:00- Global unrest in 1968 39:00- The term fake news 44:00- Walter Cronkite interview with Mayor Daley Monday on Political Rewind: AJC columnist Patricia Murphy joins the panel.

To celebrate the announcement of the upcoming launch of Peach Fish's newest podcast, Not Even Mad, in this installment of Best Of The Gist, we are replaying Mike's January 18, 2017 interview with Heather Hendershot. Heather watched nearly 1,500 episodes of William F. Buckley's pioneering TV show Firing Line, and though she still doesn't agree with Buckley, she admires how he created a place for high-minded argument. Then we will listen to some bonus content from Mike's Thursday interview with David Priess, former CIA intelligence briefer and current Publisher of Lawfare about the work of the January 6th Committee. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at thegist@mikepesca.com To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With local leaders vying to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Reset looks back at the fateful 1968 convention with film and media professor Heather Hendershot.

In her 2021 book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech, our guest Martha Minow “outlines an array of reforms, including a new fairness doctrine, regulating digital platforms as public utilities, using antitrust authority to regulate the media, policing fraud, and more robust funding of public media. As she stresses, such reforms are not merely plausible ideas; they are the kinds of initiatives needed if the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press continues to hold meaning in the twenty-first century.” Martha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School, where she also served as Dean, since 1981. In addition to Saving the News, she is author of When Should Law Forgive? (2019), In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Constitutional Landmark (2010), among many other books and articles. She is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women, children, and persons with disabilities, she also writes and teaches about digital communications, democracy, privatization, military justice, and ethnic and religious conflict. Heather Hendershot is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and studies TV news, conservative media, political movements, and American film and television history. She is author of the forthcoming book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America, which follows her 2016 title Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. She has held fellowships at Vassar College, New York University, Princeton, Harvard, Radcliffe, and Stanford, and she has also been a Guggenheim fellow. Her courses emphasize the interplay between creative, political, and regulatory concerns and how those concerns affect what we see on the screen.

Hello and welcome to sixth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. If you grew up in the 1990s, you most likely watched Nickelodeon and were a fan of their Nick Toons. The 1990s have become known as the Golden Age of Nickelodeon Studios and nostalgia always comes into play when that decade is mentioned. Mathew Klickstein felt the same way, so he wrote Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age chronicling the adventures of cast, crew, and other cool people from the “only kid’s network.” Home Podcasts Toon-In-Talk Toon-In-Talk Episode 06: Interview with Mathew Klickstein Toon-In-Talk Episode 06: Interview with Mathew Klickstein Podcasts Toon-In-Talk April 24, 2015 Whitney Grace Save VANAPHASE™ the Vanadium powerhouse! Hello and welcome to sixth episode of Fanboy Nation’s Toon-In-Talk, your rendezvous for animation interviews. If you grew up in the 1990s, you most likely watched Nickelodeon and were a fan of their Nick Toons. The 1990s have become known as the Golden Age of Nickelodeon Studios and nostalgia always comes into play when that decade is mentioned. Mathew Klickstein felt the same way, so he wrote Slimed! An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age chronicling the adventures of cast, crew, and other cool people from the “only kid’s network.” Episode 6 Show Notes • Whitney tells Matt she had been searching Nickelodeon’s history herself. He tells her that a lot of people told him they wanted to write a book on Nick, but they never got around to it. He affirms there are a lot more stories to tell about “the only kid’s network.” • He recommends reading the academic book Nickelodeon Nation by Heather Hendershot. • Matt discusses details about how it was published and why he decided to write an oral history of Nickelodeon. • Whitney asks questions about why Matt formatted the book the way he did, especially when it comes to information about his interviewees. • Matt interviewed over 250 people for the book. He also had to leave out a lot of material. • To track people down, it was actually the easiest getting Melissa Joan Hart, Kenan Thompson, and others. It was extremely difficulty getting people who worked on only one show, like Richard Price. • Six degrees really comes into play for rounding up the interviewees. • Slimed was more like producing a documentary than writing a book. Matt loves oral history, but he wants his next book to be in prose. • In the early days, Nickelodeon licensed cartoons to air on the station. Nickelodeon made Looney Tunes popular again. When the licensing came up again, Warner Brothers wanted more money from Nickelodeon. • We can thank the FCC for putting an end to 30 minute long toy commercials. Networks were also finally allowed to produce their own cartoons. • The original three cartoons were: Doug, Ren and Stimpy, and Rugrats. • Nickelodeon found six shows they made pilots for. They found potential shows by literary going to animator’s garage. • Whitney mentions the yearly Nickelodeon writing and animation contest. Both discuss how Nick has changed its content and yet remained the same. • Whitney brings up Ren and Stimpy and Matt discusses its heated history. • The creator John Kricfalusi had an ill reputation, though he is a creative genius. • Whitney and Matt talk about making something new and original. Neither wants to repeat the creative past. • Money is a necessary evil. Whitney mentions some of her hopes before she got her book contract. Matt recommends people use a publisher and gives his advice about self-publishing and YouTube. • Matt’s favorite NickToon is Ren and Stimpy and Whitney’s is Aah! Real Monsters. • Matt declares the episode over!

You didn’t have to agree with William F. Buckley to marvel at his intellect, his swiftness, and his wit. Starting in 1966, Buckley got to show off his skills every week on Firing Line, his pioneering television show devoted to debate. Heather Hendershot watched nearly 1,500 episodes of the show, and though she still doesn’t agree with Buckley, she admires how he created a place for high-minded argument. Hendershot is the author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. For the Spiel, is the circus shutting down or will confirmation hearings be going for a bit longer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You didn’t have to agree with William F. Buckley to marvel at his intellect, his swiftness, and his wit. Starting in 1966, Buckley got to show off his skills every week on Firing Line, his pioneering television show devoted to debate. Heather Hendershot watched nearly 1,500 episodes of the show, and though she still doesn’t agree with Buckley, she admires how he created a place for high-minded argument. Hendershot is the author of Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. For the Spiel, is the circus shutting down or will confirmation hearings be going for a bit longer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, we hear from Professor Hendershot about her recent book on William F Buckley’s famous political talk show Firing Line, which ran from 1966 through 1999 and thus chronicled the massive political and cultural changes in America from the 60s onward. The book is called Open to Debate: How William F Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line, and we talk about it. We also discuss the effect of the media on the political process today, and how it might be improved.

Dr. Sebastian Gorka joins to discuss the crumbling relations between the U.S. and Russia. Heather Hendershot talks her new book about William F. Buckley entitled, 'OPEN TO DEBATE.' US Congressman Ken Buck and tonight's upcoming presidential debate.

Why you should be a bone marrow donor with Julianne Grose, BYU, John Philipott, Be The Match, BYU student Andrew White, and Mary Halet, Be The Match. William F. Buckley put liberal America on the Firing Line, says MIT's Heather Hendershot.

Our information sessions bring prospective master's students to campus to meet our faculty and students, who discuss the program, its research, what it's like to apply, and the experience of studying at MIT for two years. The 2015 infosession was led by graduate program director Prof. Heather Hendershot and program administrator Shannon Larkin, and it featured research group directors like Ethan Zuckerman of the Center for Civic Media and Sarah Wolozin of the Open Documentary Lab; several current graduate students; and questions from attendees on-campus and online. If there was anything we didn't cover, don't hesitate to contact us at cmsw@mit.edu!

William F. Buckley’s public affairs program Firing Line (PBS, 1966–1999) offered a space for no-holds-barred, honest intellectual combat at its finest. The conservative Buckley hoped to convert viewers, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view, and thereby become a better liberal or a better conservative from watching the show. There is simply no equivalent on TV today. Conservatives have Fox News, liberals have MSNBC, and in more neutral territory we find C-SPAN. Overall, politically oriented broadcasting has become a vast echo chamber (especially on talk radio), with many tuning in largely to have their views confirmed—and to hear the other side vilified. What happened? How did we get from Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor? And how can we possibly fix things? Hendershot’s talk will provide the historical, regulatory, and political context we need in order to begin to address these very difficult questions. Heather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in CMS/W. Her book on Firing Line is forthcoming in the summer of 2016.

In the Cold War years, there was a tremendous surge in right-wing broadcasting in America. Hendershot explains how radio and TV extremists feigned a “balanced” presentation of their ideas in the 1950s; in the 60s, those same broadcasters switched to an overtly right-wing line. Ultraconservative broadcasting was eventually shut down by the IRS, citizen activists, and the FCC. The Fairness Doctrine was the most powerful tool used against the extremists, and, thus, right-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter. Hendershot’s work thus provides useful context for understanding not only the history of the conservative movement but also the contemporary landscape. Heather Hendershot’s research centers on regulation, censorship, FCC policy, and conservative media and political movements. She is the editor of Nickelodeon Nation: The History, Politics and Economics of America’s Only TV Channel for Kids and the author of Saturday Morning Censors: Television Regulation before the V-Chip, Shaking the World for Jesus: Media and Conservative Evangelical Culture, and What’s Fair on the Air? Cold War Right-Wing Broadcasting and the Public Interest. She is also editor of Cinema Journal, the official publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.