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Gofundmes hitting up. >> best continuing media trend, the popularity of podcasts. >> its just relaxing, and its an inclusive medium, and i think thats what people like about it. >> best food showing up everywhere, avocados. worst flavor overstaying its welcome. pumpkin spice. dont take that away from me. im going to pretend you didnt say that. >> best social climber, a raccoon that scaled more than 20 stories up a minneapolis building. and, yeah, its fine. best prognosis, batkid, cancer-free. ...

>> best media trend, the popularity of podcast. >> its relaxing, and its an inclusive medium. i think thats what people like about it. >> best food showing up everywhere, avocados. worst flavor overstaying its welcome? >> pumpkin spice. dont take that away from me. im going to pretend you didnt say that. >> best social climber, a raccoon that scaled more than 20 stories up a minneapolis building. and, yeah, its fine. best prognosis, batkid, cancer-free. best big beef, nickers the cow, only hes r...

>> worse case of our imitating life, sasha baron cohen. drop the gun. >> it was way too close to home. when satire becomes reality its no longer funny. >> i support israel but not this kind of stuff. >> quit looking meat, dan. >> im just checking to see if i had any calls. got it. >> worse second act roseanne returned with massive ratings until a racist tweet she apologized for but got the boot anyw anyway. >> oh, roseanne, please can i have talk about her. can i have a moment of silence for ros...

>> wakanda forever. >> other shows faired better while still taking on sensitive material. >> every america should watch both black ish and last man standing. it speaks to both sides of political conversation we have in america. there is a happy medium of comedy. >> why would they cancel a popular show that everybody loves? >> maybe theyre a bunch of idiots. >> but the best new show in the mix, give it up for barry, the hit man who is just killing it. >> yeah, make me feel really good. i feel re...

Trump muck, who can put together a coalition demographically that can deliver, show up and overwhelm trump. so you have a president who is losing popularity, who faces the headwind of a potentially declining economy, but a big democratic field with lots of different lanes including generational lanes to try to figure out, the older and the younger and the into you tour. >> david gregory takes the why dont you meet me in the middle look for the midwest going forward. ♪ why dont you meet me in t...

International politics and domestic politics seemed to be decided by violence. and violence only begets violence. >> from the underground, that radical left wing group, the weathermen promises more attacks on the establishment around the entire country starting next week. the medium for this message was a tape recording reputedly by the fugitive weatherman leader bernadine don. >> sisters and brothers, we are not just attacking targets. we are bringing a pitiful, helpless giant do their knees. g...

Of slavery before told from the point of view of the africans. >> it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. >> them is free. is 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 miniseries 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 hi...

Programming in the 70s became the platinum standard on the 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. >> theres some things that are very difficult to understand in a newspaper. >> every now and then i think back to "mr. rogers" and think he would say, dont be scared, everybody is special. >> everybody is so special becau...

Although whenever there is a new medium such as the printing press there is often a period of a wild west where stories, conspiracy stories pro live rate until the system recalibrates and mounts an immune response and figures out how to control it. we havent done that yet with the rise of social media, but when the printing press originated there were fake books of the bible being disseminated, we had the protocols of the elders of zion which blamed the worlds problems on jewish conspiracy, ther...

Law of history that really matters and thats the law of unintended consequences. nobody who built facebook expected that it would be a decisive variable in the election of donald trump, but it was. >> that is certainly true, although whenever there is a new medium such as the printing press there is often a period of a wild west where stories, conspiracy theories proliver ate until the system recalibrates and mounts an immune response and figures out how to control it. we havent done that yet wi...