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The Brian Lehrer Show / December 23, 2004

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, December 23, 2004
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  • Cyber Salon

    If 2003 was the year blogs burst onto the scene, 2004 was the year they became respectable. Today, the scribes behind Wonkette, Pressthink, and Powerline (Time magazine’s first-ever blog of the year) share their thoughts on journalism’s most untamed frontier.

How Long Has This Been Going On?

Jay Price, staff writer for the Raleigh, NC News & Observer, has the details on the first known case of an Iraqi murdered by a US serviceman
» "Guardsman killed Iraqi after sex" in the Raleigh News & Observer

Widespread Abuse?

R. Jeffrey Smith, staff writer for the Washington Post, says new documents show abuse in Iraq and Guantanamo was more widespread than previously thought
» "New Papers Suggest Detainee Abuse Was Widespread" in the Washington Post

Elegy for a Friend

Wayne Barrett, Senior Editor at the Village Voice, and Author, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani (Basic Books, 2001) and City for Sale: Ed Koch and the Betrayal of New York (Harpercollins, 1988), remembers journalist Jack Newfield
» The Village Voice

Open Phones

your calls on charitable giving and their person of the year

Cyber Salon

Scott Johnson, an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis, fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute, and co-writer of Powerline, explains how he helped brake the fake National Guard documents story
» Powerline
and
Ana Marie Cox, writes Wonkette, gives her snarky take on being sassy
» Wonkette
and
Jay Rosen, Professor of Journalism at New York University, writes Pressthink, speculates on the future of blogs
» Pressthink

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.

Video Picks

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Check out some recent video clips of interviews with guests and Brian Lehrer's weekly Web video picks.