Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: November 7, 2000 ARCHIVAL (CNN, 11-7-00):NEWS REPORT: A big call to make, CNN announces that we call Florida in the Al Gore column. ARCHIVAL (CBS, 11-8-00):NEWS REPORT: Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 12-14-00):NEWS REPORT: Florida goes […]
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Transcript: Runaway Plane
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: August 22, 1980 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 8-22-80): FRANK REYNOLDS: A major technological advance of great military significance. NARRATION: In 1980, the Pentagon caused a sensation by revealing a new futuristic aircraft technology – called Stealth. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 8-22-80): ANCHOR: An aircraft which will […]
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Transcript: What Is a Healthy Diet? The Answers Are Unsatisfying
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: June 1, 1998 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-1-98): TOM BROKAW: Is America the land of the heavy… ARCHIVAL (CBS, 7-28-76): DR. MARK HEGSTED: We should eat less meat, we should eat less fat. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 6-1-98): TOM BROKAW: …the hefty… ARCHIVAL (ABC, 2-1-77): NEWS […]
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Transcript: How Heroin Addiction’s Rural Spread Changed an Inner City War on Drugs
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: March 16, 1970 ARCHIVAL (NBC NEWS, 3-16-70): CHET HUNTLEY: So far this year, almost 200 people died of overdoses of heroin. ARCHIVAL (NIXON CAMPAIGN COMMERCIAL, 1968): NEWS REPORT: Crimes of violence in America will double by 1972. We cannot accept that kind […]
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Transcript: Free Speech VS Censorship: Warnings From Explicit Lyrics to Trigger Warnings
TEXT ON SCREEN: August 9, 1985 ARCHIVAL (ABC, 8-9-85):PETER JENNINGS: This is a question, particularly for older people. When was the last time you listened carefully to some of the words the rock singers sing? ARCHIVAL (CYNDI LAUPER MUSIC VIDEO): CYNDI LAUPER: She bop, he bop and we bop. NARRATION: Rock music has always been […]
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Transcript: Argentina’s Stolen Babies, and the Grandmother Leading the Search
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. Transcript in Spanish TEXT ON SCREEN: January 6, 1984 ARCHIVAL (NBC, 1-6-84): NEWS ANCHOR: The people of Argentina are now beginning at long last to unravel the mystery of the disappeared. ARCHIVAL (NBC, 1-6-84): NEWS REPORT: The remains of many of the disappeared are being […]
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Transcript: Lessons from Columbine About School Shootings and Media Misinformation
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: April 20, 1999 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 4-20-99):NEWS ANCHOR: School violence erupted again today, suddenly and with a vengeance. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 4-20-99):NEWS ANCHOR: Columbine High in Littleton, Colorado. It has been a horror. NARRATION: In 1999, two high school students went on a deadly […]
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Transcript: The Nanny Murder Case: Shaken Baby Syndrome on Trial
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. TEXT ON SCREEN: October 7, 1997 ARCHIVAL (CBS, 10-16-97): DAN RATHER: A British nanny is charged with the murder of a baby. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 10-21-97): TED KOPPEL: Charged with causing the death of an infant by shaking him. ARCHIVAL (ABC, 10-21-97): GERRY LEONE: Ladies and […]
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Transcript: How a Standoff with the Black Panthers Fueled the Rise of SWAT
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. NARRATION: The media spotlight has been focused on the growing militarization of police. ARCHIVAL (7NEWS DENVER, 6-5-15): LEO LECH (ANGRY HOMEOWNER): This is the work of paramilitary thugs! NARRATION: Ever since the response to protests in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. ARCHIVAL (ABC NEWS, 8-14-14): REPORTER: […]
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Transcript: From Crack Babies to Oxytots: Lessons Not Learned
Click here for the full video page and educator materials. ARCHIVAL (FOX6 NOW, 11-27-13): REPORTER: They are the tiniest addicts. ARCHIVAL (FOX, 10-29-11):REPORTER: The tragic symptom of a problem out of control in America. NARRATION: Recent news coverage has focused on drug-addicted newborns as an alarming new trend. ARCHIVAL (FOX, 10-28-10): REPORTER: Oxytots. ARCHIVAL (FOX […]
