Susan patty rhule, in your job at the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk about today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint, what has characterized the relationship between the president and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. In office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. So that relationship for people who dont understand that, it can go very badly. Susan we will talk abou
Susan patty rhule, in your job at the newseum, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. We will talk today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint, what has characterized the relationship between president s and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, the relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during the campaign, the candidates want to woo the press. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. When they get in office, when the celebration is over and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, to be the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job youre doing . To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. That is often the role of the press. So that relationship for people who dont understand th
Track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. A great irony is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the u. S. In the years after that, increasingly restrictive legislation was passed. We want immigrants to calm, we beckon them with opportunity to take jobs as skilled, semiskilled, unskilled labor to build our country, construct our economy, but after they get here, frequently they are the object of scorn, they are discriminated against, they suffer some of the worst acts of prejudice imaginable. This is a very complicate
Kraut, you have spent your professional career as an historian studying u. S. Immigration. Many americans look to the statue of libertys famous poem by emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look at history, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. It has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. One of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would pass in the years after that i
Susan alan kraut, you have spent your professional career as an historian studying u. S. Immigration. Many americans look to the statue of libertys famous poem by emma lazarus that says give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free as the embodiment of the way we think about this country and immigration. As you look at history, does it track with the reality of how we have treated immigrants . Dr. Kraut the history of immigration in the u. S. Doesnt track at all with emma lazaruss wonderful quotation. In fact, it has been a lovehate relationship. In the 19th century, there was a popular immigrant saying, america beckons but americans repel. That is more accurate as to how our relationship with immigration has been in the United States. In fact, one of the great ironies is that emma lazarus wrote the poem in 1883, and one year before, in 1882, the u. S. Passed the chinese exclusion law, excluding chinese laborers from coming to the United States. We would p