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The Catholic Church and the media, how war can look like a video game, copyrighting jokes

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"Militia" vs "terrorist" and lawsuits that stifle First Amendment rights

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The ill coverage of the health care bill, plus "baby killers"

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States trying to ban release of 911 tapes, plagiarism detection software for newspapers, the FCC's new broadband plan

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Special: The Future of the Music Industry (originally broadcast 10/23/2009)

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Human flesh search engines, the First Amendment right to flip the bird, Hollywood's "uncanny valley"

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Political theater, sex.com and A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter

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Iceland is paradise for journalists and librarians rule!

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How to handle a recall and what you learn from listening to thousands of hours of Bin Laden tapes. Plus, does it matter that the son of the NY Times Jerusalem Bureau chief recently joined the Israel …

The meaning of "middle class"; covering Haiti after the initial crisis; iPad: awesome or...meh?

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The ethics of medical journalism in Haiti; searching for meaning in the Massachusetts election; tabloids, then and now

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Trying to rebuild the Haitian media; Guantanamo like we've never seen before; the fight over cameras in the Prop 8 court battle

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The year's most flagrant (and entertaining) newspaper mistakes; the Washington press corps' 19-year-old copy editor; the art of the ambush interview

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An anniversary of Y2K panic; a history of horror films; how Hitchcock's "Psycho" changed everything

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Our life stories both on and offline: a history of the memoir, plus how journalists, sources and newspapers reckon with the ubiquity of online archives in the age of Google

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Show Summary: climate change doubt spikes up

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Show Summary: presidential speeches not so influential

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Special: The past, present and future of the book.

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