Congressional Scandals
The eleventh hour of the 25th anniversary of viewer calls focused on the year 1990 and various past congressional scandals. Mr. Holman talked about the Savings and Loan scandals of the late …
192 viewsThe eleventh hour of the 25th anniversary of viewer calls focused on the year 1990 and various past congressional scandals. Mr. Holman talked about the Savings and Loan scandals of the late …
192 viewsJournalists talked about the results of the 2004 Presidential election, the role of the media in campaign politics, their experiences covering the election results, differing styles of the G…
203 viewsThe guests discussed President George W. Bush’s January 20 State of the Union Address. They talked about the role of the annual speech and its effect on politics and policy, and about critic…
73 viewsThe panelists talked about the results of the recent elections. They also responded to questions from the audience.
489 viewsWashington Journal was aired live from the set of PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Telephone lines were opened for audience comments.
386 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
59 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
133 viewsCurrent events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers, and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes, and …
173 viewsCurrent news events and political issues were examined through reviews of the morning newspapers; interviews with journalists, newsmakers and legislators; and viewer telephone calls, faxes a…
37 viewsThe participants talked about the media’s coverage of the first 100 days of the 104th Congress. They also took questions from the audience.
50 viewsThis 1995 WASHINGTON JOURNAL was a Newspaper Roundtable discussion of news events and political issues . Guests included: Kwame Holman, MacNEIL/ LEHRER NEWSHOUR Jill Abramson, Dep…
118 viewsSeveral journalists talked about how they to cover events in the 104th Congress now that the Republicans are in the majority. They focused on where to go and who to talk to for important inf…
109 viewsThe guests talked about the events of the past week, focusing on the televised speech delivered by President Clinton last night. In the speech, the president described the possibility of mil…
121 viewsJournalists discussed a number of issues including a House vote on an assault weapons ban, an investigation of Representative Rostenkowski, the U.S. policies towards Haiti and recent allega…
57 viewsAt the annual Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, President Bill Clinton congratulated radio and television correspondents on 50 years of TV and radio coverage of national po…
832 viewsThe guests talked about the week’s events including the just completed first session of the 103rd Congress. The discussion included political consultant Edward Rollins’s controversial commen…
71 viewsNational Public Radio Mara Liasson, Lehrer Newshour Kwame Holman, and Washington Times Paul Rodriguez joined the “Journalists' Roundtable” to talk about news and current events. The guests d…
90 viewsJournalists Joan Lowy, Kwame Holman and Baton Gellman took viewer calls and discussed the major news events from the past week, including the threatened filibuster by the Republicans in the …
59 viewsThe guests discussed the major news stories of the previous week, including the rise of the potential presidency of billionaire businessman H. Ross Perot. They responded to viewer teleph…
91 viewsThe 1991 TransAfrica annual foreign policy conference entitled, “U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa and the Caribbean,” held a forum on debt owed by Caribbean countries and its effect on U.S. int…
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