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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“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“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)
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