American people of the United States
Summary
The American people are a nation and denizens of the United States. The United States is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Americans don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their American citizenship and their ancestral origins. Aside from the indigenous Native American population, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.Due to the multi-ethnic composition, the United States is a multicultural nation, home to a wide variety of traditions and values. The culture held in common by most Americans is referred to as mainstream American culture, a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European migrants, beginning with the early English and Dutch settlers.
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And that's the way it was: March 12, 1933
Sunday, March 12, 1933. Over the radio, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt speaks to the nation for the first time. It was the first of what would be known as his "fireside chats" -- a series of 30 evening radio addresses to the American people, between 1933 and 1944, in which FDR discussed his policy prescriptions.
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And that's the way it was: February 22, 1924
If Barack Obama is our first social-media president, then Calvin Coolidge rightly deserves to be called the first wireless-telegraphy president. On February 22, 1924, Coolidge became the first president to address the American people over the new-fangled medium of radio. He later helped create the Federal Radio Commission, precursor of the Federal Communications Commission.
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A Bold Experiment: Sending Citizen Reporters to Cover National Conventions
For two weeks every four years, the media and the politicos gather for the insider's ritual of selecting a presidential candidate. Really, it's an opportunity for them to party, schmooze and show the special interests, who support their cause, a good time. The role of the citizen in these pageants is, at best, as passive consumer.
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Obama directive means federal agencies have to go mobile — can newsrooms keep up?
Okay, newsrooms: The race is on. Think you can innovate faster and better than the federal government?.
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Max Berger: Welcome to the American Spring
This week, the American Spring began. You may not have heard much about it yet, because the media seem mostly to have missed it (much as they missed the original occupation of Wall Street at first). But the seeds of the occupation have started to flower into a movement reborn.
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Dee Evans: Another Concern About the Legitimacy of Some Polling Questions
Okay, for the most part I really do appreciate the hard job that our media has and what it takes to do the job that they do, but it's times like this that I remember why so many people have such a strong dislike for the media.
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WATCH: Obama Slaps Back Fox News Reporter
President Obama had a sharp response to Fox News' White House correspondent Ed Henry at his press conference on Tuesday.
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Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch -- February, 2012
President Barack Obama's job approval numbers are back "above water" (where his approval rate is higher than his disapproval number), continuing an impressive rise in the polls, which began in November of last year. This is the longest run of improved public job approval Obama has managed since he got elected.
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Lanny Davis: The PBS Clinton Series' Lack of Proportionality
To watch four hours of the so-called documentary on the eight years of the Clinton presidency gave me the sensation of a report about a glass of water that is 75 percent full and 25 percent empty. The PBS presentation, I am guessing, spent 75 percent of the four hours reporting on 25 percent of the story, i.
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Bob Burnett: The GOP Problem: 'It's Halftime in America'
This year's Super Bowl program contained a commercial "It's Halftime in America", featuring Clint Eastwood. Initially this seemed to be a public service pep talk for the nation, then a promo for Detroit, and it turned out to be a Chrysler ad. The commercial outraged Republicans. It's an indication of their core problems in the 2012 presidential contest.
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