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Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Muckraker Robert MacNeil has been bumming the backroads of the Home of the Brave, sampling the soup-to-nuts of American speech. It's a bling bling country, and it contains a bucketful of people bustin’ rhymes.

Trouble in the Sky

Alexandra Marks, correspondent with the Christian Science Monitor, on the airline industry's turbulent financial situation
» The Christian Science Monitor
and
Vaughn Cordle Chief Analyst for Airline Forecasts discusses structural problems facing airline industry
» Airline Forcasts

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Listening In

Sarah Kramer, Associate Director of StoryCorps, with more stories from StoryCorps
and
Michael Garofalo, StoryCorps facilitator
» StoryCorps Homepage

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Fo Shizzle!

Robert MacNeil, former PBS Newshour anchor and co-author, Do You Speak American? (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2005), says America is still teeming with wonderful dialects, accents, and regionalisms
» Do You Speak American?

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Digging through The Reject Pile

Jon Friedman Creator, Producer & Curator of The Rejection Show on his show based on rejected comedy material
» Tremendous Rabbit
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Matt Diffee New Yorker Cartoonist, Co-producer, hosts rejected cartoon segment of The Rejection Show
» Tremendous Rabbit

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2005: The preview

Everybody is coming out with end of year lists, including Brian Lehrer (click here and scroll to the bottom of the page). Here's ours:

The Brian Lehrer Producers' Predictions for 2005

>Thighs will be the "in" body part and thigh-accentuating hotpants will come back

>Water in wine glasses, wine ...

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