NRA Theme Restaurant; Hezbollah; African Films; Cramer Conflict; Mental...
Introduction:The National Rifle Association wants to serve you lunch, and pry away your cold hard cash. This is Bob Garfield of On The Media. Does the NRA's proposed restaurant in Times Square exploit...
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SEGMENT A:The National Rifle Association is diversifying into the theme restaurant business. Guest host Bob Garfield looks at whether the NRA's restaurant proposal is for real or just a marketing...
View ArticleInternet Privacy; CNN Turns 20; Beatles Book; Rush & Dr. Laura on TV; Peru;...
Introduction:CNN celebrates 20 years of 24-hours news. What was life -and news- like before CNN? Anchor Wolf Blitzer looks back. Also, censorship and the presidential election in Peru, and The Beatles...
View ArticleOnline News Layoffs; TV News Consultants; Political Cartoonists; Women in...
Introduction:One of the Internet's best news websites has been apbnews.com. But this week APB admitted it has run out of money and fired its staff. This week, what makes good online journalism, and can...
View ArticleOnline News Layoffs; TV News Consultants; Political Cartoonists; Women in...
SEGMENT A:Death of APBNEWS.COMThis week the criminal justice site APBNews.com announced that it ran out of money and fired all its staff. Reporter Deryl Davis investigates why one of the best news...
View ArticlePrisons in the Media; Prison Journalism; Putin's Media Crackdown; Kosovo;...
Introduction:The US has one of the world's highest incarceration rates. But do the media understand prison? This week, Ted Conover who worked for a year as a prison guard to research his new book on...
View ArticleVivendi-Seagram Merger; Lew Wasserman; Cuba-America & Baseball; Survivor;...
Vivendi acquires Seagram to give the French multinational control of the MCA and Universal media empires. Adam Gopnik who writes The New Yorker's Paris Journal column discusses the implications of the...
View ArticleSAG Strike; Commercials; Word Watch; The Patriot; Film Shorts; PC Expo;...
Reporter Felicia Megdal reports on the Screen Actors Guild strike over payment of residuals to actors who appear in television commercials.Guest host Brooke Gladstone discusses the ubiquity of...
View ArticleReality TV; Webcams; Crime.com; Stop the Inanity; Napster; Raptivism; Paul...
Host Brian Lehrer and Dutch television critic Martin Houchen discuss reality television in the U.S. and where the American networks got many show ideas...from the Netherlands. Brian interviews Alan...
View ArticleAIDS Conference; Candidates Court the NAACP; British Body Image; News...
The 13th Annual AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa is discussed by host Brian Lehrer and Newsday science writer Laurie Garrett.Linguist Robin Lakoff discusses the language of the speeches given by...
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The 13th Annual AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa is discussed by host Brian Lehrer and Newsday science writer Laurie Garrett.Linguist Robin Lakoff discusses the language of the speeches given by...
View ArticleGOP Convention, Word Watch, Codename Carnivore; l'Unità; Athletes & the...
Elisabeth Perez Luna reports on Philadelphia's attempt to burnish its image to the nation while hosting the Republican National Convention.In a Word Watch segment, reporter Alicia Zuckerman discusses...
View ArticleBush's Convention Speech; Concorde Crash; Web Convention Coverage; Reality...
Guest host Karen Michel and linguist Robin Tolmach Lakoff analyze George W. Bush's acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. A Stat Watch segment investigates a claim that twenty percent...
View ArticleLieberman; Coarsening Culture; Dems & Hollywood; What's the Heartland?;...
Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore chose culture warrior Joe Lieberman as his running mate. Guest host Bob Garfield explores Lieberman and claims of a coarsening culture with Lisa Schwarzbaum of...
View ArticleSurvivor; Original Kings of Comedy; Bollywood Goes Borscht; Rajkumar...
Len Anderson, a public radio journalist in Alaska, reports on the reaction to Survivor in the Last Frontier, media psychologist Stuart Fischoff discusses who should and shouldn't be a contestant, and...
View ArticleWomen in Media; Media on Women; Webgrrls; Sheila Nevins; Lorena Hickok;...
The 80th anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States was met with a conspicuous media silence. Rhino Records "Great Speeches of the 20th Century" conspicuously lacks speeches by women. Brian...
View ArticleDebates; Bush's Potty Mouth; Campaign Ads; Harry Shearer; Sound of Music;...
Do the rules for televised presidential debates really matter? Host Brian Lehrer discusses the question with historian Alan Schroeder, author of "Presidential Debates. Forty Years of High-Risk."Brian...
View ArticleDebates; Bush's Potty Mouth; Campaign Ads; Harry Shearer; Sound of Music;...
Do the rules for televised presidential debates really matter? Host Brian Lehrer discusses the question with historian Alan Schroeder, author of "Presidential Debates. Forty Years of High-Risk." Brian...
View ArticleSubliminal Political Ads?; Congressional Hearings; Body Language; Olympic...
Is the Bush campaign using subliminal advertising in its anti-Gore ads? Host Brian Lehrer discusses with Mark Crispin Miller, professor at NYU and Rhoda Lipton, former news producer and professor at...
View ArticleSubliminal Political Ads?; Congressional Hearings; Body Language; Olympic...
Is the Bush campaign using subliminal advertising in its anti-Gore ads? Host Brian Lehrer discusses with Mark Crispin Miller, professor at NYU and Rhoda Lipton, former news producer and professor at...
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