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The interviews are nuanced, hard-hitting, and fair. They get people who are interesting to hear from, they ask pretty straight-forward questions, and they don't stop until they get their answers. They also don't suffer posturing or sidestepping, and both of the main interviewers have a rich history of calling bullshit on the crazy crap that their guests sometimes spew. I love it. The topics are always media-related, but they interpret their topic broadly enough to keep the stories from being esoteric; in addition to the obvious first-amendment topics, they frequently touch on privacy, government, law, war, and economics. Even when I don't feel like hearing depressing news at 1:59pm on a Sunday, I'm always glad I listened by 3:01pm. Today's show, for example, was a pretty good discussion of several privacy issues with YouTube and Google, and they finished up by discussing an extremely interesting obscenity lawsuit that potentially set precedent for judicial action on Orwellian "thought crimes." When was the last time the BBC had a discussion about thought crime? That's what I thought. (* - I still think that This American Life is the best thing on the radio, but since it's not always news I can safely hold up OTM along side it.) |
i love on the media too! i haven't listened to it in about a year, unfortunately. i fell out of a podcasts for a while. this reminds me to jump back in.
i really feel like brooke and bob, so good humored, nevertheless really dig in to an issue. it's refreshing.
oh i was going to mention TAL! i have just started listening to it, and it's wonderful. did you listen to the one about people make radical changes in their life? i loved the section on the two homeless guys in nyc. their comment, that no homeless person in nyc is starving, really resonated with me. i did some digging around and indeed the food available in most large communities, especially from churches, is quite good and can feed street people.
Posted by: omar at July 30, 2008 09:36 AM