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.
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
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
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)
and
Sarah Henry, chief curator at the Museum of the City of New York discuss the exhibit Black Style Now
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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