NBC News Chairman Andy Lack: MLK and the Media

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🗓️ 22 March 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Andy Lack joins 1947 for a special discussion about a new documentary "Hope and Fury: MLK, The Movement and The Media" - a film that traces how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders in the civil rights movement used the media to advance their message.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:09.0	My guest today is my boss, so this could be my last interview ever.
0:13.2	It's Andy Lackey's chairman of NBC News, but he's also the executive producer of a new
0:17.5	two-hour special called Hope and Fury, MLK, The Movement and the Media.
0:22.2	This new documentary film examines how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the Civil
0:26.0	Rights Movement used the power of the media, particularly the visual media, to bring
0:31.8	attention to the challenges they were facing.
0:35.0	Andy Lackey, welcome to my podcast here in 1947.
0:37.4	Hey, it was a very good year, Chuck.
0:39.6	Good to talk to you.
0:41.8	Yes, it was.
0:42.8	Yes, it was.
0:43.8	We love 1947.
0:45.6	So I take it the premise of the documentary is this.
0:51.2	Without television, perhaps the Civil Rights Movement takes a lot longer, I guess it would
0:58.3	be one way to put it.
0:59.3	Is that a fair way of presenting this?
1:02.8	Yeah.
1:03.8	John Lewis has a beautiful line in the film.
1:07.8	Without television, the Civil Rights Movement would have been a bird without wings.
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