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Cable Television Changed Media and Politics and Helped Polarize the Nation
A review of Kathryn Cramer Brownell’s “24/7 Politics: Cable Televisions & The Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.”
Alison Dagnes
November 3, 2023
A review of Kathryn Cramer Brownell’s “24/7 Politics: Cable Televisions & The Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News.”
These two books offer insights into our current moment of unchecked gun violence and eroding democracy.
Kutztown University Professor Michael Gambone reviews this beautifully written, insightful, and poignant examination of our broken, and at times absurd, modern moment.
A review of Boston University Professor Lee McIntyre’s “On Disinformation: How To Fight For Truth And Protect Democracy.”
In her analysis of Reconstruction, Kidada Williams reminds us that a better world has always been possible.
David Gushee’s book “Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies” warns that many Christians have adopted a “holy war mindset” and are “flirting with, blessing or engaging in violence. And that’s part of the story of January 6.”
A review of “QAnon, Chaos, and the Cross: Christianity and Conspiracy Theories,” edited by Michael W. Austin and Gregory L. Bock.
A review of “Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal,” by Dr. Bettina L. Love.
David Neiwert’s new book is a sweeping and detailed exploration of the threat the American far right poses nationally and locally.
After months of unanswered pleas from parents and teachers, it took a Democratic sweep at the polls on Election Day for the school board to finally get the message.
The 77-page filing alleges Pennridge administrators and the school board ignored or dismissed incidents of discrimination and harassment spanning many years.
The decision is the second federal court ruling that Act 77’s ballot-dating requirement violates the Civil Rights Act.
This is the last Episode of Season 1 of The Signal. We’ll be back in January 2024.
“It is our hope to EMPOWER as many girls as we can in the community.”
If the Bucks County Beacon is going to be here for the long haul, and save the area from becoming a news desert where extremism and authoritarianism flourishes, we need the community to invest in our independent media project.
