The First - Free Speech at the Crossroads
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
The First Amendment is being tested like never before. In these historic times, the First Amendment withstand the pressure? The First examines the turbulent history and today's unprecedented threats t…
The First - Free Speech at the Crossroads
Dubbed in : English ( Original )
The First Amendment is being tested like never before. In these historic times, the First Amendment withstand the pressure? The First examines the turbulent history and today's unprecedented threats to the First Amendment. The First Amendment is being tested like never before, as the members of the Press sue the White House after being banned from coverage. In these historic times, the First Amendment withstand the pressure? The First examines the unprecedented threats to the First Amendment. Co-hosted by NBC News' Tom Costello and Colorado Public Radio's Bazi Kanani, The First looks back through time at America's turbulent past with the First Amendment and the challenges it faces today. The First examines Thomas Jefferson's original ideas of individual freedom, that eventually evolved into James Madison's drafting of the First Amendment into the Bill of Rights. The film examines everything from the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, to the Espionage Act of World War I, to infamous Supreme Court cases that helped redefine our view of the First Amendment. The First sharply examines many of the current threats to the First Amendment, including the media ban from the Trump White House and the lawsuits from media organizations to defend their First Amendment rights, to the impact of Artificial Intelligence. Interviews include Martin Baron, a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor-in-chief of The Washington Post, Pulitzer-Prize Winner, Dean Baquet, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, and other well-known First Amendment authors, historians, scholars and First Amendment pioneers.
The First - Free Speech at the Crossroads
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The First Amendment is being tested like never before. In these historic times, the First Amendment withstand the pressure? The First examines the turbulent history and today's unprecedented threats to the First Amendment. The First Amendment is being tested like never before, as the members of the Press sue the White House after being banned from coverage.
In these historic times, the First Amendment withstand the pressure? The First examines the unprecedented threats to the First Amendment. Co-hosted by NBC News' Tom Costello and Colorado Public Radio's Bazi Kanani, The First looks back through time at America's turbulent past with the First Amendment and the challenges it faces today. The First examines Thomas Jefferson's original ideas of individual freedom, that eventually evolved into James Madison's drafting of the First Amendment into the Bill of Rights.
The film examines everything from the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798, to the Espionage Act of World War I, to infamous Supreme Court cases that helped redefine our view of the First Amendment. The First sharply examines many of the current threats to the First Amendment, including the media ban from the Trump White House and the lawsuits from media organizations to defend their First Amendment rights, to the impact of Artificial Intelligence. Interviews include Martin Baron, a multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning former editor-in-chief of The Washington Post, Pulitzer-Prize Winner, Dean Baquet, former Executive Editor of the New York Times, and other well-known First Amendment authors, historians, scholars and First Amendment pioneers..