NOW | Milton Glaser: Politics in Wartime

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    Milton Glaser: Politics in Wartime - What's the Spin and What's the Truth?
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    t r u t h o u t | Programming Note

    PBS Airdate: Friday 01 July 2005 at 9:00 p.m. on PBS.
    (Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html.)

    The careful crafting of images and messages on TV, in advertising, and in politics is shaping the way Americans think and act. In uncertain times, legendary graphic artist and marketer Milton Glaser is questioning how people's responses to these symbolic messages is affecting democracy. On Friday, July 1, 2005 at 9 P.M. on PBS (check local listings), NOW's David Brancaccio interviews Glaser for his thoughts on what the intersection of design and politics has done to the way Americans discern between truth and propaganda and how it's affected our ability to question the politics of the moment. "Everything is spun in terms of achieving a certain result," he says. "The fascinating thing about it is that the public, who's grown up conditioned by advertising, perfectly accepts political misrepresentation this way.

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