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When Bill Clinton's press secretary, Mike McCurry, started allowing TV media to carry his daily press briefings live, he profoundly changed the daily ritual. McCurry and ABC News veteran Sam Donaldson discuss the extent to which the White House press corps is playing to the cameras.
How much truth is there to the sterotype of NPR listeners as white, over-educated, latte-drinking, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, West Wing watchers? A lot, according to NPR's latest audience research survey.
Pour yourself an egg nog and curl up for a little radio drama, OTM-style. In this reprise of a production first broadcast four years ago, Bob and Brooke turn their many years of public radio experience inside out and imagine a day in the life of fictional station WACLU. Nothing is sacred.
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If there's anything positive to come out of actor Michael Richards' recent racist rant , it's that people are once again discussing the limits of the N-word. Who can use it? How has its meaning changed over time? WNYC's Radio Rookie Veralyn Williams explores the complexities of a contested term.
No longer content to silently disavow religion, the so-called New Atheists are on the offensive. Borrowing tactics from the faithful, nonbelievers have taken to proselytizing in books and in the media. And yes, they’re even in foxholes.
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