Media, has written a number of books. We met about a year ago at a a conference that was put on by the Berkeley Program at yale, and i can see that at the time she has a real affinity for trying to understand the connection between the Communications World and the media world on the one hand, and different elements of the conservative movement on theun other. So this is a natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that general area. Open to debate is the book. Heather has watched not maybe every single one of 33 yearss with the firing line episodes but pretty close to it i think. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. So please help a welcome heather hindershot to the podium. [applause] thanks so much. Its really great to be here, h, particularly here at the hooverr institution because the hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out of stanford all the papers are and, of course, they preserved all the episod
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We met a year ago at a conference put on by the Buckley Program at yale, and i can see that she at the time she has a real affinity for trying to understand the connection between the Communications World and the media world, on the one hand, and different elements of the conservative movement on the other. So its this is a natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work, looking at that general area. Open to debate is the book, heather has watched not maybe every single one of 33 years worth of firing line episodes but pretty close to it so probably the reigning expert on all things related to firing line. So help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the program. [applause] thank you so much. Its really great to be here, particularly here at the hoover institution, because the hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and of course they have preserved all the episodes and son but the papers and transcriptscouldnt have done it
We met a year ago at a conference put on by the Buckley Program at yale, and i can see that she at the time she has a real affinity for trying to understand the connection between the Communications World and the media world, on the one hand, and different elements of the conservative movement on the other. So its this is a natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work, looking at that general area. Open to debate is the book, heather has watched not maybe every single one of 33 years worth of firing line episodes but pretty close to it so probably the reigning expert on all things related to firing line. So help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the program. [applause] thank you so much. Its really great to be here, particularly here at the hoover institution, because the hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and of course they have preserved all the episodes and son but the papers and transcriptscouldnt have done it