"HOW CAN YOU SATIRIZE A PARODY?...AND OTHER PARADOXES OF POLITICS AND JOURNALISM".....told through narration, music and soundbites
From Paul Fischer | Part of the What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series series | 56:04
In this episode...if you want to get a straight answer from a politician, try asking a straight question. ( it probably won't work...but at least you'll be able to tell when a politician is avoiding the question.
Does Scott Brown expect to be re-elected by continuing to raise questions about whether Elizabeth Warren is really part Cherokee?
Yes, that IS Al Franken...but is he on C-Span or SNL?
The New York Times finally caves on the practice of " quote approval"...but says it's partly because the public misunderstands the purpose of letting the powerful approving their own quotes before you publish them. Yeah, right. You can't make this stuff up.
Also, maybe Romney would be doing better if he actually ran against Obama...instead of the cartoon Obama he's created to run against ( and he can't even beat the cartoon version)
And, is it too early to worry about the huge automatic budget cuts taking effect after the election...unless congress acts first?
This is a "stand alone" episode of the "newsical" series "What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" heard weekly on a number of public radio stations around the country....from Paul Fischer...veteran of Pacifica Radio and 24 years on the CBS Evening News With Dan Rather
Corporate Feudalism
From Guy Rathbun | Part of the IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices series | 28:54
America’s middle class is in dramatic decline. But, what caused the downfall?
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- Corporate Feudalism
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- Guy Rathbun
WTF Episode 110 Dane Cook & Janeane Garofalo
From WTF with Marc Maron | Part of the WTF with Marc Maron series | 59:00
Conversations with two distinctly different comics: Dane Cook and Janeane Garofalo. Both news hole and 59 minute versions are provided.
How can you sell out 20,000-seat arenas, star in several Hollywood films, record the biggest selling comedy album in 30 years, and still be called "polarizing?" Dane Cook stops by the garage to talk about being Dane Cook and whether that might be more complicated than it seems. Plus, Janeane Garafalo describes the transition from political commentary back into comedy.
Wither the Cube Farm
From The Drucker Institute | Part of the Drucker on the Dial series | 58:59
Executives from Herman Miller and Gensler talk about how their companies help others achieve better outcomes through well-designed work environments.
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- Wither the Cube Farm
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- The Drucker Institute
Host Phalana Tiller talks with Diane Hoskins, co-CEO of Gensler, and Greg Parsons, vice-president of the New Landscape of Work at Herman Miller, about how their companies help others achieve better outcomes through well-designed work environments.
And Forbes.com columnist Rick Wartzman delivers a piece on the Big Data revolution.
Affordable Care Act Special Documentary
From AARP Radio | Part of the Prime Time Radio series | 59:55
Affordable Care Act Special Documentary: The specifics of the Affordable Care Act.
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- Affordable Care Act Special Documentary
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- AARP Radio
First, a special documentary that will clear up some of the confusion, misinformation and disinformation about the Affordable Care Act, signed in to law last year...Prime Time Radio takes a comprehensive look at the issues of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act from the policy makers to regular individuals already being impacted by the Act.
Then, Dr. John Coster, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs at the National Community Pharmacists Association discusses how the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect prescription drug costs for patients and what it might mean for pharmaceutical companies.
The Affordable Care Act Special and Dr. John Coster, this week on Prime Time Radio.
RN Documentary : Building the Bomb
From Radio Netherlands Worldwide | Part of the RN Documentaries series | 29:30
Joseph Rotblat explains how he came to work on the first atomic bomb.
The detonation of the first atomic bomb on August 6th 1945 marked the start of a deadly new race for military supremacy. The blast in Hiroshima, Japan was the largest the world had ever seen and was trumpeted as a victory of ingenuity – indeed some of the world’s greatest scientists worked on it. One of them was Joseph Rotblat - a man who has spent the last 50 years trying to prevent the use of the weapon he helped create.
11: Microphone Museum
From Everything Sounds | Part of the Everything Sounds series | 20:26
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
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- 11: Microphone Museum
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Bob Paquette has been collecting microphones for over six decades. His collection resides in his microphone museum that resides in the building that houses his family business in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Bob shared his knowledge of microphones and audio technology as well as anecdotes about the ill-fated Turner “Colortone” microphones, performers’ fears about using early microphones, and how portions of his collection ended up in the hands of a famous director. For more on microphones, you can check out Bob’s book, The History and Evolution of the Microphone.
The Right To Die
From Anton Foek | 24:45
In this audio piece the audience visits the Netherlands and listens to a way of dying in dignity.
We tell the story of how the Dutch may have found an alternative for unneccessary suffering and visit Ms. Walburg de Jong at an organization in the heart of Amsterdam. We hear father Simon Evers, counselor at one of the larger hospitals who accompanies the dying on request. We also hear Sytze van der Zee a former journalist and author who wrote a book about his mothers dying. Finally we hear Karen who was at her fathers bedside when he decided that his suffering was not bearable anymore.
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- The Right To Die
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When Karen found out her father was going to die having been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease she knew that the nerves affecting his muscles stop sending messages to the brain and deteriorating the body until he was almost paralyzed.
He could not walk anymore, nor speak or swallow let alone walk. And she knew in the end he would suffocate. Her Dad also knew.
It was inevitable and saddening by the day when he stopped swallowing. In the end he was permanently confined to his bed where fluids would accumulate in his airways and throat giving the whole family a hint how he would struggle for oxygen and die. karen would clear his throat.
The family confronted a situation untold scores of Americans face. They knew Dad would die soon and could only hope and pray for a smooth death.
But the general practinioner told them it would not happen, but they lived in the Netherlands a country leaving legal options to die.
Euthanasia is permitted in Holland under certain conditions, First it is only legal if the patients' request is voluntary. Second if the doctor who ends the patient's life is checked and regulated by at least one other physician with no connection to the case who is also convinced the suffering is unbearable without hope. Third that there is no hope for improvement.
Her Dad decided he wanted to take life in his own hands and determined he would die. The doctor agreed to help out. Other physicians were consulted and her Dad was asked several times if he was sure and certain and if this was what he wanted. He always confirmed it was.
The family planned farewell and a last time together. She says it felt very special like Christmas without the trees and gifts. Dad wanted his children to know about him and why he made that decision. Life was not dignified anymore.
After the last supper the doctor put his lethal medications aside and in a different room. " Dad hugged us ", Karen says, " and lay down on his bed. The doctor put anaesthetic into his feeding tube, then added a drug to stop his heart beating. I think it's one of the most beautiful things I've seen in my life. To see someone you love so dearly pass away so peacefully,"
He was on his bed and could see the family looking at them with such thankful eyes and very energetic. He waved and was actually smiling.
Listen to The Right to Die
Waring Blender
From William S. Hammack | Part of the Stories of Technology series | 02:39
The Waring Blender came from Fred Waring, leader of a 1930s Big Band.
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- Waring Blender
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When his brother-in-law proposed making a blender, Fred Waring say, "I have been wanting a machine to make the absolutely velvet-like, sweetest-possible banana milk shakes all my life." In addition to that, Waring loved gadgets, having been an engineering student before forming a band. Waring gave his brother-in-law $25,000 to improve the blender. He even created a singing group called the "Blendors", as Waring liked to spell the word. What first made the blender take off was alcoholic drinks, becoming popular in bars and homes becuase it could make fancy cocktails. Although, Waring himself was a teetotaler -- he liked to make juice in the blender from vegetables. It's likely the marguerita and the daiquiri would never have become popular without Waring's Blender. I don't mean to imply that his blender is used only for frivolous pursuits. Hospitals discovered it was great for churning up baby food. And there was a medical version called the Waring Aseptical Dispersal Blender. It's alleged that Jonas Salk used it to grind up the material for his first polio vaccines.
IOU: Stories of Student Debt
From Radio - Columbia College Chicago | 28:30
Is college really worth it? Student producers delve into this issue in a half-hour program about the student debt crisis. Radio Documentary students at Columbia College Chicago collaborated on a semester-long project to study one of the biggest financial problems of their generation - student loan debt. This program allows the voices of students to be heard and looks closely at the problem, how it's influencing recent and soon-to-be graduates, and the possible solutions.
In segment one, (billboard) students wonder aloud about the growing problem of student debt and ask the question: is college worth it?
In segment two, students identify the problem through the eyes of college financial counselors and tell the emotional story of one student who has accumulated more than $200,000 in school loan debt.
In segment three, students explore the extraordinary ways students are attempting to pay for college, including borrowing money from friends, Tweeting for cash, and taking their clothes off at a strip club to pay off school loans.
In segment four, students talk to high school students who are just beginning the process of college borrowing and try to consider what might be the solutions to the growing student debt crisis.
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