penn state university professor talks about political satire in the age of cable television and online media. and its influence on public opinion. this 30 minute event was part of a symposium on satire held at the university of minnesota. >> one of the great adventures of helping pull this symposium together was to identify the scholarship in the last 30 years that his advanced our understanding of satire. from central casting comes our next speaker, sophia mclennan. sophia is a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at penn state university and founding director of the center for global studies. she is a nationally recognized expert on satire and politics with two books on the topic or it is satire saving our nation? and colbert's america, satire and democracy. she also has a column on salon where she regularly covers politics and culture. one of the thread we are pulling throughout the symposium is just how satire influences public opinion and why satire is sometimes more powerful than traditional news. i turn you over to professor mclennan. [applause] prof. mc

. >>> next on american history tv, penn state university professor sophia mclindon talks about public satire. and its influence on public opinion. this 30-minute event was part of the symposium on satires held at university of minnesota. >> one of the great adventures of helping pull the symposium together with jane was to identify the scholarships in the last 30 years that has advanced our understanding of satire. from central casting comes our next speaker. sophia is a professor of international affairs from comparative literature at penn state university, and founding director of the center for global studies. he's a recognized expert on satire and politics with two books on the politics. and satire and democracy with a column where she regularly covers politics and culture. one of the threads we're pulling, just how they influence public opinion and why and how sometimes it is more powerful than traditional news. so we'll turn you over now to professor mclendon. >> i appreciate you taking a moment and sharing your time with me. i am thrilled to be here. it is pretty much what i do

she is a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at penn state university and founding director of global studies. she is a nationally recognized expert. his satire saving our nation? ert's america, satirizing democracy. lon also has a column on sa where she regularly covers politics and culture. we are discussing just out satire influences public opinion and why satire is sometimes more powerful than traditional newspaper i turn you over to professor mclennan. [applause] thank you. i think you are missing the best weather minneapolis as seen in thmonths. i appreciate you taking a moment to spend your time with me. i am thrilled to be here. i love talking about this stuff. it is pretty much what i do. i am going to throw a lot of things out. some of what is here is in the books she mentioned. part of it is in a new book i'm working on called "trump is a joke: why satire makes sense when politics doesn't." given i have all these amazing political cartoonists in the gin, maybe you could just up a book cover for me while i talk. that would be cool. [laughter] what is it we

. >> > next, on american history , penn state university professor talks about political satire in the age of cable television and online media. and its influence on public opinion. this 30 minute event was part of a symposium on satire held at the university of minnesota. >> one of the great adventures of helping pull this symposium together was to identify the scholarship in the last 30 years that his advanced our understanding of satire. from central casting comes our next speaker, sophia mclennan. sophia is a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at penn state university and founding director of the center for global studies. she is a nationally recognized expert on satire and politics with two books on the topic or it is satire saving our nation?

i'd like to thank our sponsors penn state university, the universities of florida and south carolina, johns hopkins, pax, society for children and policy and practice, crime injustice research alliance and the institute. it takes a village to put on a briefing. and we're very, very grateful to our sponsors. i'd like to thank lauren hog and her family for coming today. i'd like to thank dr. julie phillips pollack for coming to day and being with us. i think i read in "time" magazine yesterday there is a wonderful profile of the parkland students and their efforts to organize this march and this movement. and the report i had a wonderful line. she walks into the offices of the parkland students and says, everything crackles with a sense of ferocious optimism. a sense of ferocious optimism. so i'd like to thank you. i'd like to thank the panel for your leadership and grace and helping us to understand where we are and where we might go today. i want to make a special thank you to michael green to my right, masters of ceremony. the brain and leadership and the energy behind this event whe

mark: penn state university, you earned a masters of business administration, you work with the new york city police department for four years from '95 to '99. you joined the secret service in '99 as a special agent. and you eventually protected a president, as i recall. >> yeah, it was fun. miss it sometimes. mark: we're here on very serious business. very, very serious business. i wanted two smart serious people with me, and i want to start the program this way. i have before me an october 16, 2000 memoranda for the u.s. attorney general of. the office of legal counsel which as you know is the office that passes unconstitutional issues for the united states government, and they're also looking at a 1973 memoranda during the nixon administration. same office. this is what they say in the opening paragraph, in 1973, the department of justice concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions. we've been asked to summarize and review the analysis

. >>> next on american history tv, penn state university professor sophia mclindon talks about public satire. and its influence on public opinion. this 30-minute event was part of the symposium on satires held at university of minnesota. >> one of the great adventures of helping pull the symposium together with jane was to identify the scholarships in the last 30 years that

she is a professor of international affairs and comparative literature at penn state university and founding director of global studies. she is a nationally recognized expert. his satire saving our nation? and

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