Arun has left the building and more!
Hard News
In the wake of the Jason Blair scandal at the New York Times, former Newsweek media reporter Seth Mnookin has written "Hard News," a look into how the scandal occurred and how the Times reacted. Bob speaks to Mnookin about the book and the Times' attempts at investigating and correcting ...
Janet Cooke's Legacy
When it was revealed that Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Janet Cooke had invented her prize-winning story, calls for systemic reform reverberated throughout the media world. But more than two decades later, has anything changed? Brooke looks at the checks and balances in the newspaper industry, and asks whether anything could have ...
Society of the Spectacle
Over the course of the week, as the casualty count from the Indian Ocean tsunami mounted, we were inundated by images of catastrophe on an epic scale. It was a reminder of how small the world has become, how clearly we see each other and how clearly others around the ...
Corrections
Journalists make mistakes, enough so that most newspapers publish daily corrections along with their headlines, articles and crossword puzzle. In its storied history, the New York Times has averaged seven goof-ups a day, the best of which are collected in the book "Kill Duck Before Serving." Brooke chats with the ...
Pulling Back the Curtain
In the aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal, the New York Times published a 7600-word post-mortem that offered readers a rare look at its newsroom practices. But the Times is not the only news organization of late to give the public a fuller view of how the journalistic sausage is ...
1939 Radio
We all know that TV is mind numbing. Try watching 12 at a time. For a week straight. OK don't. You might not have time for NPR, let alone meals. Also, you'd just be copying Jack Lechner, who wrote about his television immersion in the book "Can't Take My Eyes ...
Media Diet of a Bronx Teen
Teenagers are big consumers, and media is just another part of many teens' daily diet. On The Media asks sixteen-year-old Janesse Nieves of the South Bronx to disgorge the contents of her daily media intake.
Arun Has Left The Building
A tribute to our soon-to-be erstwhile senior producer Arun Rath.
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