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All eyes on YouTube! In less than two years of existence the internet video site has changed the way millions use television and the web. It’s now in the midst of a political speech/censorship debate and was just bought by Google for $1.65 Billion. Also, new higher estimates of the Iraqi civilian death toll; Hip Hop culture meets 7th Avenue Fashion in a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York; live coverage of President Bush's press conference and Lucky Issue 13 in our election series, “30 Issues in 30 Days” – Global Warming, Beyond Kyoto.
Death Toll
Larry Korb, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, former Assistant Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration and retired naval reserve captain
and
Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of Human Rights Watch Africa and Middle
East division
- on the study that reveals the Iraqi death toll is much higher than the Bush administration has admitted
You on YouTube
Steve Safran, managing editor of Lostremote.com, a blog about the TV business and president of the Safran Group a media consulting firm
and
John Battelle, columnist for Business 2.0 Magazine, co-founder of Wired Magazine, author, The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture
(Portfolio, 2005)
- on the rise of the Google era and it's purchase of YouTube
Phashion Show
Michael Henry Adams, Harlem historian, guest co-curator of the exhibit Black Style Now at the Museum of the City of New York, and co-author with photographer Paul Rocheleau,
Harlem: Lost and Found (Monacelli Press, 2001)
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Sarah Henry, chief curator at the Museum of the City of New York discuss the exhibit Black Style Now
30 Issues: Global Warming, Beyond Kyoto
Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post national environmental reporter and author,
Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2006)
- looks at federal, state and local government responses to global warming and how partisan politics figure in
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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.- Comments [40]
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!- Comments [15]
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!- Comments [172]
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.
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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.
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