West Virginia Public Radio-Molly Ivins (Molly Ivins at the Ned Chilton Leadership Lecture); West Virginia Public Radio-Molly Ivins (Molly Ivins at the Ned Chilton Leadership Lecture)

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  • Ned Chilton Memorial Lecture
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  • Molly begins speech
  • Ned Chilton was Molly's hero
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  • Molly begins sodomy penal code anecdote
  • Warren Chisholm- "A bible thumping dwarf"
  • Chisholm re-introduces heterosexual sodomy law too
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  • Prick and asshole joke
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  • First Ammendment and Censorship
  • Political debate
  • First Ammendment as a weapon of attacck
  • Dream let go down the toilet due to cynicism
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  • Troubled by the degree of sourness
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  • Media is failing
  • "Objectivity is an illusion"
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  • No such thing as objectivity
  • Objective reporting makes reporters lazy
  • Accuracy vs. truth
  • Yellow press/two-penny press
  • "Molly your paper is crusading."
  • Rupert Murdoch
  • British newspaper system
  • "Mr. Murdoch, your readers are our shoplifters."
  • What you get with owned dailies is mediocrity
  • Squeezing the newspaper
  • Jack Chinsley (Sp?)
  • Older technologies get pushed back
  • Print will survive due to busyness
  • The Challenger Disaster
  • Pictures limited to the surface of events
  • 60 Minutes
  • No good news on television journalism
  • Pope story
  • Can't live in Texas without laughing
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  • Sewage Treatment Plant joke
  • Whipped cream of New Jersey society
  • "I want to look our posterity in the eye and tell them how much fun I had."
  • Questions & Answers begins
  • Jack Germond
  • Haiti
  • Jimmy Carter "That little ol' peacemonger"
  • Health Care Reform
  • Change campaign (?)
  • "Damn near irresistable to insult politics."
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