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With Congress in recess, much of the fight over health care reform has migrated to the airwaves as millions of dollars of advertisements are rolled out, primarily by critics. But how...
In discussing national health care plans, reporters, politicians and especially critics have been fond of invoking the failed Clinton plan of '93 & '94. Paul Starr, Princeton professor...
After Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist
, the online liberal group
ColorofChange.org got 20 or so of Beck's advertisers to
remove their ads from his show....
Last week, Iraqi journalists, publishers and press freedom advocates
protested a new law which could impose censorship rules on the media. NPR's Deborah Amos was there. Amos explains...
While working on a piece about what it takes to disappear from your life in a digital age, Wired Magazine reporter Evan Ratliff and senior editor Nick Thompson decided to try it themselves....
News organizations are finding it increasingly difficult to turn a profit, thus making non-profit news an increasingly attractive solution. Jim Barnett has been studying and blogging...
What would happen if a major U.S. city was suddenly without a daily newspaper? It seems increasingly possible these days and so the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism...
Don Hewitt, who founded "60 Minutes" and changed the trajectory of journalism in America, died this week at the age of 86. Brooke spoke with him in 2001 and so this week we replay that...
The future of the internet: from cyber security to online bullying to what the internet is doing to our brains.
There’s a name for how cruel people can get given a little anonymity on the internet. It’s called “online disinhibition effect” and the resulting venom can ruin your day or worse,
Is Google making us stupid? Is it making us smarter? Have we lost our ability to concentrate? Are we more social or more isolated as a result of our constantly interconnected lives?...
Technology is such an integral part of our lives but will it soon be part of our bodies as well? Computer scientist and inventor Ray Kurzweil thinks so. He predicts that by 2045 we...
The basic architecture of the Internet hasn't changed since it was conceived 40 years ago. But what was once the playground of wonks is now the main staging area for the global economy...
The YouTube-ization of health care hecklers; the military and the media; the psychology of reporters who die for their stories.
Town hall meetings across America this week erupted in raucous protests. Many on the left dismissed the protests as political astro-turfing, straight from the playbook of right wing...
The group Freedom Works, chaired by former House majority leader Dick Armey, has been instrumental in organizing the town hall protests we've seen on YouTube and cable news. The protests...
The Gazette of Colorado Springs recently published
a series about the psychological struggles of a group of Iraq War veterans who'd been arrested for violent crimes at home. But while...
Matt Mabe is one of the few people who know what it's like to be on both sides of the strained marriage between the military and the media. He left the army in 2007 to become a reporter...
What drives a journalist, like Russia's Anna Politkovskaya, to risk their life to pursue a story? Reporter Terry Gould profiled 7 slain journalists in 5 countries to try to answer
The titles of our most beloved books have stories of their own to tell. Bob talks with Gary Dexter, author of Why Not Catch 21?: The Stories Behind the Titles about the surprising origin...
