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  • Hot type / by Marjorie Lipsyte interviewed by Phyllis Kriegel

    “Hot Type” is a novel about a woman working on a newspaper in the 1960’s, struggling to get ahead but finding it very difficult. Includes discussion of early women in newspaper 1930’s, movement in 1940’s (because of war) women found jobs, but then pushed back in the 1950’s. By the 1960’s there were less women…

  • Democracy Now! June 6, 2003

    Hour 1: Rachel Corrie was Crushed by an Israeli Military Bulldozer, Tom Hurndall was Shot in the Head by an Israeli Soldier. Today on the 36th Anniversary of the Occupied Territories, we Speak with the Parents of these Two International Peace Activists. Corrie s family is supporting resolution HCR111 which calls for an independent investigation…

  • Democracy Now! June 6, 2003

    The Two Top Editors of The New York Times Resign. Yes – The New York Times is at a 152-year low but is it thanks to Jayson Blair? Or is it because the paper has become the Pentagon s most effective mouthpiece?; Latino Lawmakers Demand the Resignation of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Phoenix, Charging…

  • Democracy Now! May 21, 2003

    St. Louis Police Stage a Pre-emptive Strike and Arrest 27 Activists Prior to Demonstration; New York Times reporter, Chris Hedges was booed off the stage and had his mic cut twice as he delivered a graduation speech on war and empire at Rockford College in Illinois |9:00-9:01 Billboard: 9:01-9:06: The activist community in St. Louis…

  • Democracy Now! May 21, 2003

    Hour 1: Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star : As FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is already moving in on DirecTV; Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times 150-Year History?; Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb…

  • Democracy Now! May 21, 2003

    Rupert Murdoch’s Digital Death Star : As FCC prepares to unleash the largest wave of media consolidation in U.S. history, Rupert Murdoch s News Corp is already moving in on DirecTV; Is the Jayson Blair Affair the Low Point in New York Times 150-Year History?; Cuba: The Next Regime Change? Florida Governor Jeb Bush Denies…

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S. and North Korea talks begin in Beijing: University of Chicago professor Bruce Cumings discusses North Korea; The role of poets in a time of war: Grace Paley, Vermont s official state poet, talks about the peace movement. Hour 2: San Francisco Chronicle reporter fired for protesting: Henry Norr discusses his dismissal after…

  • Democracy Now! April 24, 2003

    San Francisco Chronicle reporter fired for protesting: Henry Norr discusses his dismissal after he took part in an anti-war protest; Free press in Iraq?: We speak with an editor of Tarieq Al-Shaab, the first independent newspaper to be distributed in Baghdad; Columbia University Professor Edward Said on colonialism, his classic book Orientalism and the future…

  • Union returns to the Herald-Examiner / Robert Gottlieb ; interviewed by Jim Berland.

    Author of Thinking Big on efforts to unionize the Los Angeles newpaper.

  • The Phoenix / produced by Leonard Charbrowe and Mimi Anderson.

    Examination of the style and impact of the Newspaper.