Hodding Carter III

Hodding Carter III

1935-04-07
88 (2023-05-11)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

William Hodding Carter III is an American journalist and politician. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration.

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

William Hodding Carter III is an American journalist and politician. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration.

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In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.
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Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media 2018

A documentary following the civil rights movement and how the media, in particular the burgeoning TV, was used to fight for equality in the 1960s. From Selma to Charlottesville, we also see how modern activists use today's technology to continue fighting injustice today.
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A Search for Solid Ground: The Intifada Through Israeli Eyes 1990

Hodding Carter hosts the program, which includes another look at the Gaza Strip-West Bank uprising and a panel discussion on recent peace proposals.