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Maybe a lot of producers are Melissas, afraid of the present, looking toward a past that never really existed.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
In this eight part documentary series, co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika explore the roots of today’s ongoing media crisis – the splintering of news audiences, the widespread perception of bias, and the deluge of misinformation – by delving through stories from the past and the present.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
As the show barrels toward the present, the audience comes to understand how many people, particularly men who have every privilege and opportunity, are trapped in prisons of their own making.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2026
In this eight part documentary series, co-hosts John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika explore the roots of today’s ongoing media crisis – the splintering of news audiences, the widespread perception of bias, and the deluge of misinformation – by delving through stories from the past and the present.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
Joining together the present and the past is the community organizer Lina Rodriguez Armstrong, who was also displaced by that fire and who has spent the intervening years fighting for the rights of Brownsville's residents and organizing a Livonia Avenue community land trust.
—Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
As the show barrels toward the present, the audience comes to understand how many people, particularly men who have every privilege and opportunity, are trapped in prisons of their own making.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for the present
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“The present.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20present. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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