Conrad Black, The Civil War in the American Media

In order to formulate his views on the impact of technology on politics and the news cycle, historian Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, takes the audience back 40 years to the midpoint of the Watergate crisis and Richard Nixon s trial by the national media and public opinion. From there, he analyzes the growth of vapid network newscasts, and the mediabased civil war that is now being waged south of the border. Technology is not the issue, he says the problem is rooted in modern American history. (ideacity 2013)