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“It’s strange how spoken word can feel a great deal more effective, important, and poignant when set to music. Take the sample of the speech John F. Kennedy gave before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961, which appears in the title track on Las CasiCasiotone’s EP ‘Polar Bears Are Coming’ (Irregular)
It explores the relationship the media should have with the government and the public, and their responsibilities to provide material “to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion” rather than simply produce news that appeals to the public’s desire for something that is more entertaining than informing. It’s one of Kennedy’s many, many thought-provoking speeches that still resonates today, more than fifty years after the matter.
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