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2 days ago · Advocates use end of Pride Month to warn about mpox 02:42. ... is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News. ...
1 day ago · 0:59. Ohio Republicans took a victory lap on Monday after the Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump can't be tried for his official acts as president — a move that complicates and delays Trump's ...
Jan 9, 2024 · As an unofficial network of migrant advocates worked to bring organization and efficiency to bus arrivals in cities around the U.S., Texas officials quietly tried to thwart them, maximizing chaos...
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- Manuel Bojorquez,Chrissy Hallowell
- Introduction to The Advocates and Its Creator, Professor Roger Fisher.
- How Did The Advocates Get started?
- Translating The Courtroom and The Classroom Into Television.
- Working as An Advocate on The Show.
- Choosing Topics to Debate as Decidable Questions.
- Involving A Decision-Maker.
- Arguing as Advocates, Not Partisans.
- Offering The Viewer Neutral Introductory information.
- Simplifying—Rather Than Complicating—The issues.
- Using Direct Examination of Witnesses to Lay Out The Case.
In 1969, a year after graduating from Harvard Law School, I was asked to appear on a new public television show to argue one side of an important public question. I undertook this responsibility for thirteen episodes during its first season, returning to the show one more time in 1979. The show, which earned both the Peabody Award and four Emmys, w...
Roger had earlier been critical of television, particularly public television, as not doing an adequate job of helping inform the public. He was quoted as saying: More specifically, Roger was quoted as saying that: Roger’s solution was to translate a trial format to television in order to provide that choice, framed around what he liked to call a “...
The courtroom format is, at least in theory, designed to allow truth to emerge through a process of advocacy, where a proposition has to be proved to the satisfaction of an impartial jury to be true “beyond a reasonable doubt” in a criminal case, and at least “more probable than not” in a civil trial. A trained attorney presents evidence through wi...
The shape of the show was still being formed in the summer of 1969, when I was a first year associate at the Boston law firm of Hill & Barlow. I got a call from a former student of Roger’s, inviting me to come and talk about television with Roger. That conversation ultimately led to me being asked to try out as an advocate for the first season. Rog...
In the early days, choosing the topics was key. Roger insisted that it was not enough to debate public policy. While some choices depended primarily on questions of technical fact or administrative expertise, Roger as Executive Editor sought decisions in which the public also ought to play a role in the decision process. Roger believed the show cou...
For the show to be truly effective, though, the issue at hand would not just be one for the citizen but, ideally, be presented to a real person “who can make a difference.” Roger believed that a bigger impact would be made if the show could identify one particular individual from among those in power who was most able to do something about the “imp...
In the first year of the show and for a while thereafter, the individual advocates were not identified with a point of view. We did not know which side we would be asked to argue; it was almost a flip of the coin, in that we didn’t know if we were going to be arguing in favor of this or against that. Roger saw individual advocates like British barr...
To assist viewers at home in finding a stance on the issue at hand, The Advocatesaimed to convey enough factual information so that the viewer would feel competent to hear and then decide the question presented. Roger wrote: When the experts disagreed, Roger felt that the viewer should be armed with enough information to be persuadable, rather than...
Roger insisted that we use the medium of television to simplify, but not over-simplify, the issues and the arguments, as advocates are asked to do in court. “Fisher believe[d] that all these issues could be made comprehensible to TV viewers if information were better organized to meet the layman’s needs." 24 He wanted us to take advantage of the vi...
After the introduction, the advocates elicited arguments and information from witnesses through direct examination. For example, below is a direct examination by then-State Representative Barney Frank and witness, Senator Edward Kennedy, on the same Trucking show in 1979. See 00:07:09 - 00:07:24
May 30, 2024 · Louisianian Olivia Savoie’s intergenerational friendship with an octogenarian will be featured on a CBS special with national correspondent and Lafayette native David Begnaud. The special will ...
Apr 10, 2021 · Advocates are warning that the rise in bills targeting trans youth could worsen the mental health of an already vulnerable population, and could "come at the literal cost of lives." Legislators...
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4 days ago · The Supreme Court says cities can punish people for sleeping in public places. A homeless person walks near an elementary school in Grants Pass, Ore., on March 23. The rural city became the ...
