Media
- America: A Personal History of the United States has been released on DVD, with an additional feature where Cooke talks about his life.
- An Evening With Alistair Cooke at the Piano, an LP record first released in 1955, later rereleased in 1973 by Columbia Special Products (catalogue number B00110SXCK).
The album features Cooke playing jazz standards on piano with accompanying whistle, and talking about his life in America.
| Preceded by none |
Host of Masterpiece Theatre 1971–1992 |
Succeeded by Russell Baker |
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Famous quotes containing the word media:
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)