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50 Years of The Texas Observer Video Clip
Watch a short clip taken from the dvd “50 Years of The Texas Observer” to see what Nate Blakeslee, Bernard Rapoport, and Ronnie Dugger think about The Texas Observer.
- “Fifty Years of The Texas Observer” Clips:
- Quicktime video
- Quicktime video (with captions)
- Windows Media video
Transcript of Video:
[music intro]
[Nate Blakeslee, The Texas Observer Editor 2000-03 speaking]
The Observer is important today for the same reasons that it was when it was founded. Basically that it’s filling a niche that isn't being filled by the existing media in the state.
[Bernard Rapoport, Texas Democracy Foundation speaking]
What motivated me more than anything was John Dewey’s admonition that every government needs a minister of irritants and I think the Texas Observer can be the most irritating paper I’ve ever read. And that's why I love it.
[Ronnie Dugger, Founding Editor 1954-60 speaking]
I was reading Martin Gilbert’s “History of the Last Fifty Years” and he quotes the historian Hugh Seton-Watson as saying that every blow struck for justice is worth striking whether or not you lose the overall fight because it reduces the volume of injustice in the world. And that’s what the Observer has done and that’s why it matters that it continue.
