History of Media
Christopher Koch has a Bachelors degree from Reed College and a Masters degree with honors from Columbia University. He received six national EMMY awards, and his work has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS. He created and produced the award winning series Invention with the Smithsonian Institution and the Discovery Channel, and he produces video documentaries for several groups and companies in his spare time. He is currently a Professor at Montgomery College, teaching the history of telecommunications, video production, and visual story telling.
The Eighties
The Nineteen Eighties shaped the future as significantly as the Nineteen Sixties and it gave us the world we are living in today. It was a time when demonizing government was common, but it was not a groundswell from below. Ordinary people hate taxes and the insolence of petty bureaucrats, but most like the benefits they enjoy through their government, such as the postal system, the interstate highway system, clean air and water, national parks and defense.