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The Great Fire Wall of China
Google garnered praise among net enthusiasts for its “Don’t Be Evil” motto even as it became a multi-billion-dollar public company. That’s one reason why its plan to restrict sites in China has caused such a furor in the US. But Google isn’t the only American internet company complying with Chinese censorship demands. Plus: What the Mayor outlined in his State of the City address and why writers and actors are protesting product placement.
Google Under Fire
David Vise financial reporter and author,
The Google Story (Delacorte Press, 2005),
- on Google's problems at home and in China
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Mila Rosenthal Business and Human Rights Program Director at Amnesty
International
- says US companies are part of the problem in terms of international human rights
» Amnesty International
Paid to Place
Jeff Greenfield product placement consultant, executive Vice President of 1st
Approach,
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supports product placement in films and television shows
» Jeff Greenfield's website
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Patric M. Verrone president of the Writers Guild of America, West,
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talks about protesting product placement in TV and film scripts
State of the City
Ester Fuchs Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy,
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Barnard
College and former advisor to Mayor Bloomberg,
- on Bloomberg's state of the city address: guns, poverty, development
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Yvette Clarke NY City Council Member and chair of the contracts committee
and
Steve Malanga contributing editor at the Manhattan Institute's City Journal
and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute,
- on the issues in Bloomberg's State of the City
» Ester Fuchs
» Yvette Clark, District 40
» Steven Malanga
Open Phones
Listeners call in on the subject of women "marrying down" so they can focus on their careers
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