The Brian Lehrer Show: Baghdad Jitters

The Brian Lehrer Show

Baghdad Jitters

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

You don’t have to be a courageous Christiane Amanpour or swashbucking Sidney Schanberg to do journalism from a war zone. Chris Ayres was a very content, very hypochondriac business reporter in Los Angeles when his editor drafted him to do go to Iraq. The experience cured his of his propensity for panic attacks.

Harriet, Katrina, and Judy

Terry Neal, political reporter for washingtonpost.com
and
Linda Feldmann, White House correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor
- on the latest beltway buzz

» Terry Neal's Columns
» Christian Science Monitor

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Open Phones

for New York City public school teachers on whether they will or will not vote for the teacher's contract.

» The UFT contract summary

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Garden Variety Debate

Kathy Barrett-Carter, editorial writer at the Star-Ledger
and
David Chen, New Jersey reporter for the New York Times
- with analysis of the New Jersey Gubernatorial debate

» The Star-Ledger
» "Forrester and Corzine Clash in Debate as ...

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30 Issues: Gas Tax in NJ

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Cowardly Lion

Chris Ayres Los Angeles correspondent for the Times of London and author, War Reporting For Cowards (Grove Atlantic Press 2005)
- on his experience covering the war in Iraq

» Chris Ayres' columns in the Times of London

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Factsheet: the new UFT contract

We're taking calls now from teachers on the contract agreement reached by the UFT and the city. Click here to read the UFT's contract summary.

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Is there any "there" there?

Lately we've been noticing Gertrude Stein's words being employed in a manner that would provoke the old scribe to scurry home and beat Alice B. Toklas with Escoffier's Guide Culinaire.

For the record, "there is no there there" refers to Stein's hometown, Oakland, California, and comes from her book Everybody's Autobiography. Given the somewhat incoherent sentence those words come from, journos and newsmakers might give a little more pause before quoting Stein:

"What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there."

from the Village Voice: "In a Hollywood film, these logos would be given the star treatment of product placement. In Cohen's lens, they are simply there, as resolute as geological formations. Except, in Chain, there's no there there."

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