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That night, he attends a Democratic presidential debate. This is not one of the ones nationally broadcast on CNN or even PBS. It's held by a tiny Democratic group in Waterloo, Iowa, that got in its head that anyone can host a debate at the local high school. More absurd than this is the fact that Biden and Chris Dodd both show up. As the elderly moderator goes over the detailed, confusing rules about time limits--the breaking of which will result with loud beeps like a very unfun game of Taboo--the Senators stand quietly at their lecterns...
...year in May, when all and sundry decried his takeover of independent media in the country. Only infrequently was it noted that, in fact, he had done nothing of the sort: The Venezuelan government had only refused to renew the license of the privately-owned Radio Caracas TV to broadcast over public airwaves (it continued on cable and satellite). And while the decision might well have been unwise, the facts of the government’s case were rarely made available. RCTV had, after all, actively participated in the failed coup attempt in April 2002, encouraging the public to take...
...forum for an open discussion of free speech. The meeting was bogged down by countless amendments, vote counts, and quibbles over nitty-gritty details of the rules of order. Landscape studies professor John R. Stilgoe quipped, “I’m very happy...we decided not to broadcast these,” referring to the Faculty’s rejection of a proposal to broadcast meetings over radio. —Staff writer Maxwell L. Child can be reached at mchild@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...
...night’s lead story: the “massacre in Omaha.” It was one of the most bizarre feelings I’ve ever had. No one cares about Omaha—no one knows where Omaha is—and there it was, broadcast directly into my living room. The whole thing was too much...
...Leach paid tribute to outgoing IOP Forum Director Bill H. White. Sitting alongside his wife and two young children, White was toasted by colleagues near and far. Some “FOB,” or Friends of Bill, as one speaker labelled them, phoned in and were broadcast over a loudspeaker. White will join Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78’s administration after campaigning in Iowa on behalf of Hillary R. Clinton...