About the most difficult period of our familys lives. What did you find out that your parents had been communists at one point i knew as i was growing up but it was never talked about. It was a shadow of our familys life. But the time i knew my dad he was conscious of him, he had moved on and survived very well and taught me all the lessons i used in my own journalistic career, dont fall for any rigid ideology, search for the truth wherever it takes you. It was only a shadow in our family after that. But at the same time, you didnt talk about it within the family was it was it because tothey wanted to keep it camped down or why . I dont think my father was embarrassed by it but i think he didnt want to be defined by it. He had learned some lessons from that soperiod he always ma clear his idealism and optimism. It was different times. He was in a different place he wanted his family to flourish so it wasnt brought up. How did it affect your life growing up . It affected my life mostly
Programs youll see today. You can check your Program Guide or visit our website booktv. Org who a full schedule. And joining harris is the author of this book information wars. We lost the global battle against this information and what we can do about it. Information about the u. S. To the world track is yes. In olden days during the cold war we used to say telling americas story to the world. And how did you do your job, its funny, took me a while to figure out the parameters of the job what are the things i came to the conclusion was the way we tell our story is will be to our store to ourselves with american media, newspapers, magazines, tv. Rather than produce content ourselves i used to do during the cold war i thought lets show people how they cover ourselves. That was one part of it. The other part was the more strictly Public Affairs things where people are standing in front and you have to have the government line. Its safe use of your stance on issues, heres our policy, make
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