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The Brian Lehrer Show / January 10, 2005

The Brian Lehrer Show

Monday, January 10, 2005
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  • A Historic Moment for Arab Media

    Yesterday Palestinians chose Mahmoud Abbas to be their new leader. Later this month, Iraqis go to the polls. In a part of the world with few democratic regimes, newsrooms in the Arab world have the rare challenge of covering two free elections.

New Year Resolution

Dante Chinni Political Columnist for the Christian Science Monitor and senior associate at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism speaks about social security, the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General and the certification of the Presidential election
» Christian Science Monitor

Teacher's Prayer

Diane Ravitch Research Professor of Education at New York University and author The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (Knopf, 2003) says parochial school teachers make low salaries which will cause windfall to public school system
» Diane Ravitch

A Historic Moment for Arab Media

Nadia Bilbassy, senior correspondent for Al Arabiya in Washington, shares the view from Al Arabiya in Washington
» Al Arabiya
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Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and senior non-resident scholar at the Saban Center at Brookings Institution and author, Reflections of Hearts and Minds: Media, Opinion and Identity in the Arab World (Brookings Institution Press, forthcoming in 2005), and The Stakes: America in the Middle Eas (Westview Press, 2004)
» Shibley Telhami

Wasting No Time

David Blum adjunct professor at Columbia School of Journalism, television critic for the New York Sun and author, TICK…TICK…TICK…The Long Life and Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes (Harper Collins, 2004)on various media stories including Rupert Murdoch consolidating power and the CBS 60 minutes report

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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