CCTV Media Conference 1985: Opening Public Forum - "Does the Media Lie?"
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Mayor Bernie Sanders, Rep. Jim Jeffords and Brian Burns interview members of the Vermont Press Corps (Peter Freyne/ Vangard Press; Nick Monserat/ Rutland Herald; Tom Farmer/ WCAX TV; Don Melvin/Burlington Free Press) in this 1985 forum moderated by Paul McIsaac and sponsored by CCTV as the opening event of the Northeast Regional Conference of the National Association of Cable Programmers.
The raw tapes can also be found as the "CCTV Media Conference, 1985", on series archive discs MC-MC3, and the edit is also on BS102585.
Also Michael Billingsley and George Stoney in audience question time.Featured Story
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