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PBS’ Tense, Twisty ‘Deadlock’ Offers New Model for News by Reviving Time-Honored Format
PBS' will air 'Deadlock,' which has reporters and politicians consider a dire national scenario. It's based on the revered Fred Friendly Seminars.
In “ Deadlock,” an assemblage of government officials, politicos, clergy and media convenes to hash out — in real time — the fallout from a presidential election fraught with threats of misinformation, legal imbroglios and protests. Before Tang’s grilling gets underway, “Deadlock” is introduced by Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett, two of the associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, who tell viewers of the importance of working with people despite disagreements over policy, law or politics. Others taking part in the “Deadlock” discussion are Adrian Fontes, Arizona secretary of state; Katie Harbath, the former Facebook executive and CEO of Anchor Change; Astead Herndon, a national politics reporter for The New York Times; Elise Jordan, a political analyst for NBC News; Mick Mulvaney, the former Trump White House official and South Carolina Congressman; Russell Moore, editor in chief of Christianity Today; and Gabriel Sterling, COO of the Office of the Georgia Secretary of State.
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