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John Nichols and Robert McChesney on the media and democracy
No full textIn this program, media experts John Nichols and Robert McChesney join Bill Moyers to examine America's corporate media machine and the dire implications of closed-door deregulatory decisions. Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation, and McChesney, author of "Rich media, poor democracy: communication politics in dubious times", discuss, among other topics, the pernicious influence of corporate interests on the free press, which they contend have become a major barrier to the exercise of democracy.Host/interviewer, Bill Moyers; interviewees, John Nichols, Robert McChesney
Kathleen Hall Jamieson on political advertising
No full textA production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York ; director, Mark Ganguzza. Host, Bill Moyers.Amidst the mudslinging, campaign promises, and scare tactics, what is really being said in those highly produced political ads? In this program, Bill Moyers talks with one of America's leading political and media analysts, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School of Communication and author of Everything You Think You Know About Politics ... And Why You're Wrong. Through astute analysis, Jamieson deconstructs more than a dozen TV commercials used by politicians and public interest groups, homing in on their visual and rhetorical methods to expose their actual agendas of issue advocacy. Together, Jamieson and Moyers discuss the significance of these ads in the contexts of future elections and American politics in general
Mark Hertsgaard on the world's love/hate relationship with America
No full textDirected by Mark Ganguzza ; executive producer, Felice Firestone ; a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET New York. Host/interviewer, Bill Moyers ; guest, Mark Hertsgaard.Why has much of the world's regard for America diminished in the last few years? Journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard, who traveled the globe gauging foreigners' ambivalence towards the United States shares his findings, published in his new book, "The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World." Additionally, Hertsgaard comments on how America's role is changing in the wake of September 11th, and the key U.S. environmental and foreign policy decisions that have proven divisive of the international community, as well as a perceived lack of difference between globalization and Americanization
Open access self-archiving: An author study
No full textThis, our second author international, cross-disciplinary study on open access had 1296 respondents. Its focus was on self-archiving. Almost half (49%) of the respondent population have self-archived at least one article during the last three years. Use of institutional repositories for this purpose has doubled and usage has increased by almost 60% for subject-based repositories. Self-archiving activity is greatest amongst those who publish the largest number of papers. There is still a substantial proportion of authors unaware of the possibility of providing open access to their work by self-archiving. Of the authors who have not yet self-archived any articles, 71% remain unaware of the option. With 49% of the author population having self-archived in some way, this means that 36% of the total author population (71% of the remaining 51%), has not yet been appraised of this way of providing open access. Authors have frequently expressed reluctance to self-archive because of the perceived time required and possible technical difficulties in carrying out this activity, yet findings here show that only 20% of authors found some degree of difficulty with the first act of depositing an article in a repository, and that this dropped to 9% for subsequent deposits. Another author worry is about infringing agreed copyright agreements with publishers, yet only 10% of authors currently know of the SHERPA/RoMEO list of publisher permissions policies with respect to self-archiving, where clear guidance as to what a publisher permits is provided. Where it is not known if permission is required, however, authors are not seeking it and are self-archiving without it. Communicating their results to peers remains the primary reason for scholars publishing their work; in other words,
researchers publish to have an impact on their field. The vast majority of authors (81%) would willingly comply with a mandate from their employer or research funder to deposit copies of their articles in an institutional or subject-based repository. A further 13% would comply reluctantly; 5% would not comply with such a mandate
The institutionalization of treasury note and bond auctions, 1970-75
No full textThe substitution of auctions for fixed-price offerings was expected to lower the U.S. Treasury's cost of financing the federal debt. Despite this and other potential benefits, the Treasury failed in both 1935 and 1963 in its attempts to introduce regular auction sales of coupon-bearing securities. This article examines the Treasury's third and successful attempt between 1970 and 1975. The author identifies three likely reasons why the Treasury succeeded in the early 1970s: it closely imitated its successful and well-understood bill auction process, it extended the maturity of auction offerings gradually, and it was willing to modify the auction process when shortcomings became apparent.Auctions ; Treasury notes ; Treasury bonds ; Debts, Public
ASU West Construction Jackrabbit Relocation
No full textabstract: These items document the relocation of approximately 200+ jackrabbits from the ASU West construction site beginning with the letter of a concerned citizen to the governor of Arizona, to the project manager, to the pest control company, to the resolution, and back to the complainant.tableOfContents: - Letter from Arlene Binkowski (original complainant) to Governor Bruce E. Babbitt
- Letter from Robert D. Zarecky (construction manager for Ellis-Murphy, Inc.) to Bill Sample of Truly Nolen Pest Control
- Letter from Bill Sample to Robert D. Zarecky
- Truly Nolen Special Service Agreement (cost and plan for removing rabbits)
- Fact Sheet--Jackrabbit Relocation ASU West Campus Site
- "Jackrabbits are Being Relocated" (news release)
- Letter form Steve Venker (Design Project Manager, ASU West) to Arlene Binkowsk
Religion, rap and the crisis of black leadership Cornel West
No full textBill Moyers interviews activist, author and teacher Cornel West about the state of African-American society, its struggle for liberty, and its living, vibrant traditions.Host, Bill Moyers. Photographer, Joel Shapiro ; editor, Michael Collins ; music, Michael Bacon
Information in T-bill Auction Bid Distributions
No full textIn this paper UK data is used to compare two potential sources of information regarding market uncertainty about future short interest rates. One is the so-called risk-neutral density function (RND) derived from interest rate option prices, the other is the distribution of bids submitted to an auction of short-term Treasury bills. More specifically, time series of RND standard deviations and auction bid standard deviations are compared. The results suggest that in some periods the auction bid standard deviations co-moved with those of the RNDs. Thus, in principle, auction bid standard deviations may be useful to get a picture of market uncertainty about future short rates even in the absence of well-developed interest rate options markets. In the Supplement, encouraged by the above results, the author uses Hungarian T-bill auction data to check whether auction bid dispersion measures in Hungary make any sense as indicators of market uncertainty about future interest rates. Lacking any RND data for this country, this can only be done in indirect ways. These include looking at the correlations of auction dispersion measures of different T-bill maturities, comparing the time series of these measures and bid-ask spreads (another possible indicator of uncertainty) and conducting an intuitive consistency check for a certain time period.
Bharati Mukherjee, conquering America
No full textAuthor Bharati Mukherjee discusses her works and what it means to be an Asian immigrant in the United States.Host, Bill Moyers. Director of photography, Eric Camiel ; editor, Michael Collins ; theme music, Michael Bacon
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing Social Security Bill.
No full textPictured: First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Felton M. Johnston; handwritten inscription: \u27Signing of Social Security Bill 1935\u27https://egrove.olemiss.edu/fmjohnston/1102/thumbnail.jp
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