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Professor Michael J. Sandel is apparently becoming quite the media darling. Tomorrow, his lectures will be broadcast on public television for all the world to see. As of today, this week’s episode is already available on his snazzy new website. And last Thursday, he made an appearance on the Today Show—for all of four minutes—to discuss his new book, Justice: What’s the Right Thing...
Indeed, the selection of “Justice” as the Harvard class to broadcast to the world in this fashion was a good one, for its material is more than just interesting or engaging. Drawing on thinkers from Aristotle to John Rawls, the course has the potential to be a formative experience, one in which viewers will undoubtedly be forced to reflect on important moral questions and decide for themselves where exactly they stand. Though surely not the only venue for such important debates, a course as relevant as “Justice” that appeals...
Texas • school district in that refused to broadcast President Obama's message is busing students off campus to hear a speech by George W. Bush...
What was your involvement with the 9/11 Commission? I was assigned to head a team looking at the day of 9/11 itself and our response to the attack. I thought it would be one of the easier stories to put together because there was so much already written and broadcast about it. But as we started to get access to primary source material, the stories didn't match. And they didn't match in some pretty significant ways. What became clear was that during the time that the attacks were occurring, there was a complete disconnect between the national command...
...sports league has enough leverage to squeeze its passionate fans - the NFL even blocks satellite-TV signals so bars can't broadcast the game from out of town - it's this one. Despite the recession, from 2008 through 2011, the league will have received $11.6 billion from its network-television partners. Thus, it is keeping the blackout rule to maximize lucrative game-day revenues...