I might as well try to make a living at it. How many different terms are in here . About 200 or so. Some video i want to show you and have you explain. [video clip] i say to my good friend from north dakota, no. I thank my good friend. I would say to my good friend from wisconsin i thank my good friend from california. The act sponsored by my good friend from colorado. Where did this start . This has british lineage. It comes from Parliament Hundreds of years ago. If you have seen the proceedings of the house of commons, they say the right honorable gentleman. Which has a similar meaning. It is kind of a thinly veiled approach to trying to be polite to somebody that you dont really care for. In the house of representatives, there are 435 members. A lot of these are men and women who dont even know who each other are. It is kind of disingenuous. In the case of the senate, there is only 100. They probably know each other. They might not like each other but at least there is a better chan
My coauthor and i, chuck mccutcheon, had covered congress , we covered campaigns, been out on the trail, watched hundreds of hours of news, maybe thousands of hours. We had heard politicians of all stripes use many of the same phrases. Democrat, they would use a lot of these cliches. We wanted to explain to people who dont work in politics what these folks are actually getting at. When did you become interested in politics . That would be in my Early College years. I grew up in a political house called in Southern California where my parents talk about it around the dinner table but i got interested myself around 1992 when i was a freshman in college. The bill clinton president ial campaign was going on against george bush. I found myself after that very Exciting Campaign in which a sitting president was defeated, starting to watch congressional proceedings on television. I watched the house and senate. I would hear members of congress use phrases like my good friend. I figured they ac
It means i can look at the news from the inside out, chop it up, find out what are the sources, what are the biases of the different sources, what can you expect from a given news outlet as opposed to another one, what is theirs spend . News doesnt make any context if you dont have background to make meaning out of fax. Amy well speak with two of Danny Schechters longtime friends and colleagues, South African filmmaker anant singh and globalvision cofounder rory oconnor who worked with danny on the groundbreaking television series, south africa now that aired on 150 stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the height of the antiapartheid struggle. We will play exit from the newly digitized archives. Covering south africa, abc news blasts Nelson Mandela. We will dissect the report. While things like the new constitution and the right to vote or bottle concerns, they sometimes seem secondary to more urgent needs. Not even the men such high as perhaps an realistic hopes were pinned o
Actuate its remaining personnel, including 100 special Operations Forces from a military base seen as key and the drone war against al qaeda. We will get an update from reporter iona craig. Then, we remember that i nearing author, filmmaker, and media reform activist Danny Schechter, the news dissector. You are known as the news dissector. What does that mean . It means i can look at the news from the inside out, chop it up, find out what are the sources, what are the biases of the different sources, what can you expect from a given news outlet as opposed to another one, what is theirs spend . News doesnt make any context if you dont have background to make meaning out of fax. Amy well speak with two of Danny Schechters longtime friends and colleagues, South African filmmaker anant singh and globalvision cofounder rory oconnor who worked with danny on the groundbreaking television series, south africa now that aired on 150 stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the height of the
Actuate its remaining personnel, including 100 special Operations Forces from a military base seen as key and the drone war against al qaeda. We will get an update from reporter iona craig. Then, we remember that i nearing author, filmmaker, and media reform activist Danny Schechter, the news dissector. You are known as the news dissector. What does that mean . It means i can look at the news from the inside out, chop it up, find out what are the sources, what are the biases of the different sources, what can you expect from a given news outlet as opposed to another one, what is theirs spend . News doesnt make any context if you dont have background to make meaning out of fax. Amy well speak with two of Danny Schechters longtime friends and colleagues, South African filmmaker anant singh and globalvision cofounder rory oconnor who worked with danny on the groundbreaking television series, south africa now that aired on 150 stations in the late 1980s and early 1990s at the height of the