On The Media from NPR/WNYC
In an era of information overload, On the Media helps you make sense of it all. A weekly program from National Public Radio and WNYC, New York Public Radio. Includes MP3 Podcast enclosure.
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November 20, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
The media's coverage of the President's trip to China; a blow to investigative journalism in China; a play about a Seattle newsroom.
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Obama In China (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
The President returned from his first trip to China on Thursday. The Atlantic’s James Fallows talks about the trip, and the mostly negative U.S. press coverage it received.
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Unfinished Business (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
For over a decade one of the few places to read investigative reporting in China was the bi-weekly business magazine Caijing. That effectively ended last week when Caijing’s editor abruptly resigned along with dozens of the magazine’s top staff. Chinese media analyst Jeremy Goldkorn explains how …
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Waiting for Info (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
In 1989, The National Security Archive requested documents from the CIA regarding the Iran-Contra affair. This year, the CIA released them. President Barack Obama promised a new era of transparency and adherence to the Freedom of Information Act, but has he followed through? Yvette Chin, FOIA coordi …
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Sixth Sense (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
Futuristic films like "The Terminator" and "Minority Report" imagine a time in which the virtual world can be projected onto the physical world. This technology, known as augmented reality, will be commercially available in the form of glasses sooner than we think, says Jamais Cascio, of the Institu …
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Online and Isolated? (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
Social scientists have long suspected that the internet contributes to our growing isolation. But Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project, set out to test that assumption. He says they found that Americans aren't as isolated as we thought and that being active on the inter …
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Letters (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
Brooke and Bob read a few of your comments.
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Count Down (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
When Republican Senator David Vitter introduced an amendment that would require the U.S. Census Bureau to ask residents whether or not they are citizens, the Senate voted it down along party lines. As former Washington Post reporter D’Vera Cohn told us, controversy has often followed the count.
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It's Not in the P.I. (On The Media: Friday, 20 November 2009)
When The Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed its final edition last spring, Seattle lost a newspaper and more than 100 journalists lost their jobs. One of them, science reporter Tom Paulson, solicited area-playrights to produce "It’s Not the In the P.I.: A Living Newspaper About a Dying Newspaper."
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November 13, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
The dismal state of health and medical reporting on morning news shows; why the internet is not a doctor; Venezuela bans violent video games
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Prognosis Negative (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Blue M&M's may cure paralysis! That’s just one claim made recently in a health segment on network TV. For more than three years, HealthNewsReview.org editor Gary Schwitzer has been methodically reviewing TV health news claims for accuracy and responsibility. But no more; he’s found the vast majorit …
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The Good Doctor (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
According to Gary Schwitzer, there are a few TV M.D.’s who are trying to do good work. Dr. Jonathan LaPook, medical correspondent for "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is one of them. He explains how he struggles to do more with less.
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Web Sickness (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Cyberchondria refers to the practice of using Internet search engines to wrongly diagnose oneself with serious illnesses. Carolyn Butler, columnist for The Washington Post, talks about how cyberchondria came to be and she discusses her own bout with the dread disease.
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Health Craze (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
If you planned this year to celebrate National Headache Awareness Week, you’ve already missed your chance. But don’t fret – the country’s health observances calendar is slated with more than 200 awareness days and weeks and months to satisfy even the choosiest of hypochondriacs. Be hip, be informed …
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Oopsies! (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
The Disney Corporation recently announced that it'll offer a full refund for parents who bought Baby Einstein DVDs, which are reputed to make infants smarter. Bob's excited for a new product which promises to fill the vacuum.
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Political Games (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
The National Assembly of Venezuela passed a law this month that will outlaw the sale of violent video games in the country. Journalist Clive Thompson says bans like these have more to do with political gamesmanship than preventing violence.
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Big Enough to Fail (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
Last week, Comcast moved one step closer to acquiring NBC-Universal when the two companies reportedly agreed on a valuation of NBC-Universal at around $30 billion. The idea of combining distribution and content has always seemed like a good idea to media moguls, but Craig Moffett, analyst at Bernste …
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Bye Bye Lou (On The Media: Friday, 13 November 2009)
CNN's Lou Dobbs surprised his viewers this week when he announced he was leaving the network after three decades. While speculation is circulating about where he'll land, we revisit this 2006 interview in which Bob asked Dobbs how he gets away with advocating from behind the anchor desk.
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November 6, 2009 (On The Media: Friday, 06 November 2009)
The ethical dilemma of reporting from Waziristan; say hello to pay walls; the real story of a famous Berlin Wall moment
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Covering the Third War (On The Media: Friday, 06 November 2009)
The US is (unofficially) at war in Pakistan, where reporters face pressure to cover the search for Al Qaeda in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan. But the area is virtually inaccessible to most journalists and information is tightly controlled by the Pakistani military. Journalist Shahan …
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