Larry King, legendary talk show host and a broadcast pioneer, dies at the age of 87.
Piers Morgan is facing backlash on social media over his tribute to the late broadcasting giant Larry King, who died on Saturday at age 87.
Morgan first offered an RIP honoring the television legend. But it was his second tweet that raised eyebrows, which referenced his icy relationship with the famed journalist after he took over his timeslot on CNN. Larry King was a hero of mine until we fell out after I replaced him at CNN & he said my show was ‘like watching your mother-in-law go over a cliff in your new Bentley.’ (He married 8 times so a mother-in-law expert), Morgan wrote. But he was a brilliant broadcaster & masterful TV interviewer.
January 21, 2021
Joe Biden became president of the United States yesterday. As he proclaimed in his inaugural speech: “America has been tested, and we’ve come out stronger for it. We will repair our alliances and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday’s challenges, but today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.” The time to open a new chapter on transatlantic cooperation is now.
The power of transatlantic cooperation arises, most fundamentally, from a shared belief in and commitment to democracy. American democracy is under significant stress, as the lethal assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6 made clear. The challenge to democracy is not unique to the United States. Antidemocratic forces on both sides of the Atlantic have fomented fear, resentment, and anger on nationalist and often explicitly racist lines in an effort to undermine faith in democratic institutions. Yet even in the face of such attacks on democratic values, I see the resilience of democracy
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In the fall, when University of Virginia Provost Elizabeth Magill put out a call for special, “signature” January term courses, media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan and history professor Will Hitchcock knew instantly what they needed to do.
The professors had already been recording a new podcast called “Democracy in Danger,” and believed a J-Term course would be the perfect complement.
“We realized that the subject matter, coming right after the most wrenching U.S. election since 1876, would make a great course,” Vaidhyanathan said.
Fast-forward a couple months, and their idea has become reality. The professors’ course, also called “Democracy in Danger,” has more than 300 students.