The Brian Lehrer Show

Keep on Rocking in the Friedman World

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

With Ford shuttering its plants, and GM sending its workers into early retirement, the US auto industry is ailing badly. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman says that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Plus: Irish reporter Carole Coleman, who angered President Bush with her probing questions, on putting the press back into pressure, Joel Klein and Noreen Conell on wooing teachers with homes, and 69 New Yorkers get caught in a Houdini moment over the East River.

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Room and Board of Education

Joel Klein, chancellor of the NYC Department of Education,
and
Noreen Conell, executive director of the Educational Priorities Panel,
-discuss the Board of Education's plan to subsidize housing for teachers in challenging schools

» Department of Education website
»Education Priorities Panel

When Press Comes to Shove

Carole Coleman, former Washington correspondent for RTE, the national broadcaster of Ireland, and author of Alleluia America!: An Irish Journalist in Bush Country (Liffey Press, 2006)
- what happens when a member of the foreign press pushes George W. Bush's buttons

»Website for "Alleluia America! An Irish Journalist in Bush Country"

»White House transcript of Carole Coleman's interview

Keep on Rocking in the Friedman World

Thomas Friedman, New York Times columnist and author of The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)
- how America can keep the fat of the land in a flat world getting flatter.

»Thomas Friedman's website

Long Day's Journey into the City

Sam "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz, New York Daily News traffic columnist,
- on commuters' long distance relationship with Manhattan

» Sam Schwartz's Daily News column