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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 07, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Wednesday, January 07, 2004
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  • When Life Imitates Science Fiction

    When did science fiction and reality become indistinguishable? How have the writings of Ballard, Burroughs and others directed our lives and the technology around us? Steven Shaviro, author of Connected discusses life in a network society. Also: our series on the Mid-East, today focusing on the Arab media. Also, a 9/11 memorial is chosen, street vendors, and debating the Arab media.

Reflecting Absense

Andrea Bernstein WNYC Reporter and Martin Filler Architecture critic for the New Republic
on the announcement of the World Trade Center memorial designers

Vend Over Backwards

Mitchell Duneier sociology professor at Princeton and the City University of New York Graduate Center, author, Sidewalk (Farrar Straus & Giroux; (January 2001)
on the plight of city vendors

Revealed in Translation?

Rachel Fish director of the David Project's New York office
explains how she fought anti-Israel rhetoric
Hussein Ibish Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee on Israeli reaction to the Arab media and Itamar Marcus Director Palestinian Media Watch
discuss the anti-Israeli bias in the Arab media

Connect-i-cut

Steven Shaviro Author, Professor of Film Studies and English, University of Washington Connected or What It Means to Live in a Network Society, University Of Minnesota Press, 2003
on the merge between reality and science fiction

A person dressed as a bear to represent a bear market performs outside the New York Stock Exchange on October 6, 200 in New York. Wall Street tumbled after the opening bell as fallout from the credit crisis triggered concerns about the economy and the Dow fell below 10,000 for the first time in four years.

Uncommon Indicators

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The Brian Lehrer Show wants to hear how the economy is affecting the little things in your daily life. Share your stories and photos of the downturn.

Cast your vote for our video contest semi-finalists.

Ray Young, General Motors Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

The Rocky Road Ahead

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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.

Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.

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Tweet If You Use Twitter

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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.

What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!

(<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/80417539/">alexerde</a>/flickr)

Don't Say That, Literally

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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")

What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!

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From Denmark with Love

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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.

Judge Sotomayor

Squatting, Then and Now

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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.

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