Analyzing Election Ads
Bill Moyers Journal
t r u t h o u t | Programming Note
PBS Airtime: Friday, February 29, 2008, at 9 p.m. EST on PBS (check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html).
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower- income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in the lead-up to Tuesday’s potentially decisive primaries. Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today’s economic disparity as a new “Gilded Age” that threatens democracy