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Russian interference? >> its extremely visible, and the mueller report itself made clear that russias reach into the mindset, really, of the united states public, they reached 129 million voters through their disinformation warfare campaign which was then amplified by the platform that it was on, which is facebook, twitter, instagram, and others. so you dont initially know whether youre reading something thats true or false. for example, hillary clinton stumbles and has a brain disorder. that wa...

>> ive got aids? >> television at its best is a mirror of society in the moment. >> "st. elsewhere" challenged people, and they challenged you as an actor, much less the audience, to think. the stuff they gave you was extreme, and what they did, whether they were dealing with aids or having one of their main doctor characters raped in a prison. >> they tackled lots of difficult subjects. >> "st. elsewhere" was run by people who were trying to stretch the medium, and in the 80s television produce...

That could bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grownups that maybe dont get the biggest audience but get a passionate one. ♪ ill be home for christmas >> i had an idea of doing a show about death. >> are you smoking? >> no. >> yes, you are. i heard you. >> im not. no, im not. >> look, forget youll give yourself cancer and die a slow...

All those women you ran through your examination rooms, do you remember their faces or did you not even bother to look up? >> you had in "law & order" the kind of characters people take to heart. >> ill let you take me to lunch. one-time offer. >> and if youre an actor and you say well, gee, maybe its not really such a bad medium after all. >> miranda, the supreme courts mimic decision. the whole thing was illegally obtained. they were both represented by counsel. >> you just get hooked in. its ...

With russian interference? >> well, its extremely visible. the mueller report itself made clear that russias reach into the mind-set really of the united states public, they reached 129 million voters through their disinformation warfare campaign which was then andplified by the platform that it was on which is facebook, twitter, instagram and others. so you dont initially know whether youre reading something thats true or false. for example, hillary clinton stumbles and has a brain disorder. th...

♪ sunday bloody sunday >> u2, formed ten years ago when its members were still schoolboys, is now arguably the hottest rock n roll band in the world. their last album "the joshua tree" has so far sold 13 million copies worldwide. >> u2 somehow in the video age were still developing and becoming a great band and maintaining that kind of connection with people and not getting the message lost in the medium. >> we spent the last ten years finding out how to be in u2. well spend the next ten years...

Planet for how you use this medium to educate kids. ♪ would you be mine could you be mine wont you be my neighbor ♪ >> it was fred rogers who made it okay to speak to an audience of kids like they were human beings. >> there are some new things that are very difficult to understand in a newspaper. >> every now and then i think back to mr. rogers and i think, he would say dont be scared, life is good, life is special. >> everybody is so special because everybody is different. >> just go and d...

>> them is free. wes free, honey. >> one of the reasons that "roots" was so incredibly popular is not because abc had so much faith in it, but because abc didnt. >> earlier mini series were broadcast in weekly installments. and the abc executives determined that if "roots" were to fail, they could just be done with it in seven or eight nights. >> it was high risk, high reward. if it didnt work, you were out a lot of tv time and not many people watching. >> the television premiere on eight consec...

>> you look at the year that "american beauty" won the oscar, which is also the year that "the sopranos" debuted. almost immediately after that, the two mediums diverged. >> i know what i must do. im afraid to do it. >> movies became much more focused on big tentpole things that could bring in as much of an audience as you possibly can. meanwhile, tv, which had always been a big tent medium, started going smaller and more interior and saying, all right, we want to tell stories for grownups that ...

♪ >> its essentially him rapping about how badly he wants to be a rapper. >> god saved my life. so he has me here for a reason. >> "college dropout" was a cool first album. ♪ drop over in your new whip there are some great singles on there. but "late registration" to me is when it all came together. thats an incredible record. ♪ ive got to testify ♪ come up in the spot looking extra fly ♪ >> he did what the rock star used to do, which was to indulge his narcissistic fantasies through t...