Popular Culture and Propaganda
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2007
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth is explicit about taking sides on global warming. With a hero who uses torture, the TV show 24 sends a message of a different kind. Entertainment and propaganda. Do audiences distinguish between truth, fiction and political argument? Also, Vice President Dick Cheney travels to Pakistan and Afghanistan and, on Reporter's Notebook, civil rights leader Al Sharpton is linked by slave ancestors to one-time segregationist Senator Strom Thurmond.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | Popular culture and propaganda. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello again, I'm Arwenalny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.0 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.8 | An inconvenient truth is Al Gore's PowerPoint lecture on global warming. For a movie-going audience, |
| 0:26.9 | that might be the perfect sedative. But it's made more money than some big-time features, |
| 0:31.7 | and last night it won two Oscars. The TV show 24 portrays a hero who saves the country by violating the law. His use of |
| 0:40.2 | torture is part of a hit program. On To the Point, entertainments with political themes direct or |
| 0:46.0 | implied. Do audiences get it? Are the messages getting through? On reporter's notebook later on, |
| 0:52.6 | contemporary politics and the legacy of slavery. First, here's the news. |
| 0:59.0 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello again. Mormon Al Nalny back with To the Poet. Al Gore's documentary and inconvenient truth is explicit about taking sides on global warming. |
| 1:19.7 | With a hero who uses torture, the TV show 24, sends a message of a different kind. |
| 1:25.2 | On To the Poet, Entertainment, entertainment and propaganda, do audiences |
| 1:28.7 | distinguish between truth, fiction, and political argument? On the potter's notebook, civil rights |
| 1:34.5 | leader Al Sharpton is linked by slave ancestors to one-time segregationist senator Strom Thurman. |
| 1:41.1 | First, this news update. Vice President Cheney is in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a meeting |
| 1:45.3 | with President Hamid Karzai has been canceled because of bad weather. Earlier, Cheney made an |
| 1:50.4 | unexpected visit to Pakistan to deliver what official Washington calls an unusually tough message |
| 1:55.6 | to President Pervez Musharraf. David Sanger, is Chief Washington correspondent for the New York |
| 2:00.4 | Times. David, as always, welcome to correspondent for the New York Times, David, as |
| 2:01.1 | always, welcome to our program. |
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