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The Brian Lehrer Show / October 12, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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  • Gates of Injustice

    Jury's Out

    The jury system is supposed to produce verdicts that can be proven “beyond a reasonable doubt”. But a courtroom is not a scientific laboratory, and one former juror who served on an early 1990s homicide trial now believes she and her peers convicted the wrong men. Also, Bush v. Kerry: the media war, Paul Shambroom on his photos of town meetings, and 30 Issues: housing.

Out of Sinclair

Julian Borger US Bureau Chief for the Guardian in Washington says the media war has reached fever pitch
» The Guardian

and

Jay Rosen Professor of Journalism at New York University and writer of the weblog, PressThink.org
» Pressthink.org

and

Linda Feldman White House Correspondent and political reporter for the Christian Science Monitor discusses early voting in the presidential election and other campaign issues

The Big Get Together

Paul Shambroom, photographer and author Meetings (Chris Boot Ltd., 2004), says you can learn a lot by looking at locals through a camera lens
» Paul Shambroom

30 Issues: Beneath the HUD

Andrew Cuomo, former secretary for the Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Clinton, envisions the housing policies of a Kerry administration
» John Kerry's Housing Record (JohnKerry.com)

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Howard Husock, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author, America's Trillion Dollar Housing Policy Mistake:The Failure of American Housing Policy (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), spells out the Republican plan for housing
» Howard Husock bio

"I Never Want to Be on a Jury Again"

Carol Kramer, magazine editor and former juror on the Lemus and Hidalgo, says she regrets her vote to convict David Lemus and Olmado Hidalgo

and

Abraham G. Gerges, State Supreme Court Justice, editor of The Jurist and former president, New York State Supreme Court Justices Association, says the jury system is flawed but effective
» NY State Unified Court System

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.

Just Launched! The Uncommon Economic Indicators Video Contest. All the details here!

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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