The audiovisual media, with their ability to push the public's emotional hot buttons, need to play a more responsible role.

And it does not take much to push some New Yorkers' emotional buttons.

He knows better than anyone the American strengths and weaknesses, which emotional buttons to push.

But the program is less given to investigating such matters than to pressing the emotional buttons.

The acting president knew exactly which emotional buttons to press.

"We need a day to reset the emotional button," he said.

Indeed, the program pushes all the right emotional buttons.

The urge to hit emotional buttons goes out of control, and the pictures are allowed to drive the narrative.

"You don't want to push emotional buttons on your listeners by using a word like rape," she said.

Steinbrenner knew precisely which emotional button to push with each employee.