On the Media

Show Summary: The fog of fighting in Lebanon, a Pulitzer mystery solved, and behind the scenes at OTM.

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Show Summary: The Iraqi government's silence on civilian dead, new threats to military bloggers, and the mixed messages of Bollywood.

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Show Summary: Parsing the deaths of Boris Yeltsin, David Halberstam, and Pat Tillman. And, the long history of racist caricatures in American advertising.

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Show Summary: The debate over the Virginia Tech shooter video, ad-free Sao Paolo, and the uses and abuses of LSD.

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Show Summary: Mormons in the media, a farewell to Kurt Vonnegut, and why Don Imus lasted as long as he did.

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Show Summary: The press responds to hostages in Tehran and Palestine, evangelical media then and now, and Mark Twain has Walt Whitman's back.

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Blogging from the front lines and more...

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Making what bleeds, lead and much more

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Last year, it was revealed that a number of prominent newspapers were exaggerating their circulation numbers to boost advertising revenue.

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Globalization. Can individual nations control the information flow in a wired world? Or, should a global community govern the net?

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Show Summary: London tabloids get tough on Iran, how earlier presidential primaries affect press coverage, and newspaper hoaxes through the ages.

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When is it okay to show graphic war photos?

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The brave new world of open source programming: why it pays to give it away. Also, regional broadcasting worked in the Arab world, but failed in Africa. Can Latin America pull it off?

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The Los Angeles Times re-imagines the editorial so now you too can be the voice of the paper. Plus, what zombie movies tell us about our inner selves.

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Show Summary: The Iraq war on YouTube, "genocide" reconsidered, and McDonalds tries to clear its name.

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Show Summary: Politics at Justice, payola and internet radio, and Bill Gates speaks.

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Two journalistic sinners who took different paths to reportorial redemption. Plus, observing the twists and turns in the political dance of Rupert Murdoch and Hillary Clinton.

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Show Summary: Locking out reporters at Gitmo, the (not so) final verdict on Libby, and Captain America is no more.

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