Thomas L. Friedman

Pulitzer Prize ®Winning New York Times Columnist Thomas L. Friedman Reports On European Views Of America: Does Europe Hate Us? Thomas L. Friedman Reporting on Discovery


On Thursday, April 7, 2005, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT), Discovery Channel airs Does Europe Hate Us? Thomas L. Friedman Reporting, a one-hour special offering a look at the strained relations between America and one of its closest allies, Europe. Friedman’s previous Discovery Channel television specials focused on global job migration in The Other Side Of Outsourcing, the ramifications of the West Bank Wall in Straddling The Fence, and Muslim attitudes towards America in Searching For The Roots Of 9/11. Friedman uses his access and expertise to lead viewers through an examination of Europe’s often conflicting attitudes towards America. Friedman pursues the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to this critical conflict. Europeans debate terrorism, poverty, and climate. Leading experts Timothy Garton Ash, an internationally acclaimed contemporary historian whose expertise is European relations after 1945, and Joseph Joffe, the co-editor of the German weekly publication Die Zeit, also reveal their diverging insights into the current state of trans-Atlantic relations. Traveling to Paris, Friedman engages Bernard Dargols, an 85-year-old veteran of D-Day. Dargols talks at length about the depth of his generation’s gratitude toward America. But much of today’s generation of French youth does not share that sentiment. While sitting with Friedman in a McDonald’s and sharing French fries, a group of students express affection for America but bitterly mourn what they see as its lost commitment to freedom, democracy, diversity and tolerance.

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