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The Brian Lehrer Show / April 27, 2006

The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, April 27, 2006
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  • Art Spiegelman

    Property Values

    In a cut-and-paste society, the way information travels is rapidly changing, but copyright laws are staying the same. Novelist Jonathan Lethem, cartoonist Art Spiegelman and Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan debate the evolving role of intellectual property laws. Plus: Richard Brodsky makes a pitch for the Attorney General's race, Michael Hudson on the real costs of real estate and listeners' calls on the impending immigrant strike.

Over the Barrel

Ron Scherer, New York bureau chief of the Christian Science Monitor
-on the background and response to high gasoline prices.

» Christian Science Monitor website

Attorney General Race

Richard Brodsky,New York assemblyman (D-86th District-Westchester County),
- why he wants Eliot Spitzer's old job

» Richard Brodsky's campaign

The Trouble with Bubbles

Michael Hudson, professor of economics at University of Missouri - Kansas City and author, Superimperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance (Pluto Press; 2nd edition, 2003)
- thinks excessive mortgage debt is bad for society

» Michael Hudson's website

Property Values

Art Spiegelman, comic artist, author of In the Shadow of No Towers (Pantheon, 2004)
and
Jonathan Lethem, author of the novels, Motherless Brooklyn (Doubleday, 1999) and The Fortress of Solitude (Faber & Faber, 2003)
and
Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at NYU; author, Copyrights and Copywrongs: the Rise of Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity (New York University Press, 2001)
- debate the role of intellectual property in a cut-and-paste society

» COMEDIES OF FAIR U$E event at the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU

Open Phones: Immigrant Boycott

-listeners' calls on the planned immigrants' boycott.

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.