yeah. yeah. a memory. so whenever a huge ugly story m unfolds, the media has toed do its thing. and like brian stelter at a pie eating contest , they never seem to know when to quit.qu soit you sultani 15% they don t show up one more day. so i know it s natural after a tragedy, i suppose to report and report it s necessary. but thenn what ifthat s there st enough news to do more reporting with that you repeat it and repeat it again. it s like that car s for kidsnt ad that makes me want to puncture my eardrum qunol. they really are talented though but it s everything but facts. youyo call in talking headsn and experts or angles and emotional testimony. they are the hamburger helper of news if you will, adding volume to the main course and when the reporting runs dry, which is fast, the speculation begins and like me calling my pharmacist, it sis relentless. o itea won t stop. everyone tries to outdo each other and i m more perceptive than you. are you more emotionally affected
From wbez chicago, this American Life. You are listening to radio lab. Today in studio 360 i dont know how to explain this, but something happened about 15 years ago. It might have had to do with hiphop, wordy and performance oriented. Or maybe npr grew to a size that it became sort of part of everybodys i do not know. But i know what we feel, that more and more people were sort of married to it. At different points in their day, in the backseat of the car with their parents, and then they graduated and found things. Here is the weird part. In 1971, a group of people got together and said, lets make serious newsmaking radio. Walter cronkite and dan rather were kings on television. The New York Times had the pentagon papers. If you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem was radio. Linda and ira go, lets be like the New York Times. It was stupid and crazy. Now, you look at people, like linda wertheimer. People in television had a thing. They had a swagger.
May be in pr just grew to a size, i dont know precisely what happened. But i know what you can feel. More and more people were married to it. Just different points in their day, in the back seat of their car with their parents and graduated from other things that they found. Here is the weird part. In 1971 or two, lets make serious newsmaking radio. That is the time Walter Cronkite and dan rather, the new york papersad the pentagon and woodward and bernstein were with the washington post. If you wanted to be a serious reporter, you would do that stuff. Casey kasem the countdown to music, and when Linda Wertheimer and these people walked up, i know, lets be like the new york times. You are stupid and silly and crazy. Now, you look at people, like Linda Wertheimer. People in television had a thing. They had a swagger. You could feel it. The radio people are sort of mousy and quiet and selfeffacing. Now, you walk down to npr no. These are people. It happened, i think, for a combination of
First historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. He First Edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the University Press of kansas. It is still in print. Report, on its fourth printing. Of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. In the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting president s had been taken. Thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bobs scholarship. While ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the country after the travails of watergate, bob argues theres a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who performed a credible job as a national. Aretaker locally, we should also recall that he was here in kansas city in 1976. Somehow, i have a feeling well be commemorating that in about tito years. The librarys good friend, who was in the audience tonight with a young city then councilmembe
Youll meet the criminals and conmen spying on orders for the fbi. I was for them al qaeda. I am representing the sheik osama bashar alassad. Well brin owners osama bin laden. Concocted by the fbi part of a post9 11 mandate to thwart attacks before they even begin. It literally boils down to if you cannot find terrorists within the Muslim Community, make terrorists, create the terrorists. The fbi is not perfect in running the operations but theyre pretty damn close. Well show how some informants are accused of violating Civil Liberties and why some americans refuse to join the fbis intelligence ranks. I didnt want to be an informant for fbi for the same reasons that i think the Muslim Community should stand up to them. If i felt that there were actual terrorists running around in toledo, i might feel different about it. For the first time, a man accused of terrorist charges and back in the community. There was never no bombs never no maps never no plans, it was a bunch of hogwash. Stay