Phil Donahue Quotes
I certainly think we have an emergency in media, and we gotta fix it.
Donahue, Phil. Interview with Bill Moyers. Bill Moyers Journal, PBS, 25 Apr. 2008.
This observation tends to be true with groups of people with responsibility as in a legislature like Congress.
Mills was referring to the Cold War and the Red Scare. At the time the leaders of government stated that the country was facing an emergency and McCarthyism had infected the nation. But no one knew what would constitute and end to the emergency and how we would know if we won. A similar criticism was made in the beginning of the 21st century with the War on Terror. International Communism and the Islamic Terrorist movement represented new kinds of international threats the likes of which had been unknown before. Critics like Mills focused on serious weaknesses in how such situations have to be politically defined to maintain public support but they were not able to come up with a construct to allow such threats to be defined and society mobilized to deal with them.
Phillip John Donahue is an American media personality, writer, film producer and the creator and host of The Phil Donahue Show. The television program, later known simply as Donahue, was the first talk show format that included audience participation. The show had a 29-year run on national television in America that began in Dayton, Ohio in 1967 and ended in New York City in 1996.
