The Brian Lehrer Show

Storycorps

Another Story

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

The StoryCorps project captures the nation’s history through individual stories. Hear excerpts from StoryCorps Griot, a new initiative gathering the stories of African Americans. Plus: New York's new budget agreement; the People's Hall of Fame; following up on the NYPD surveillance; and why is DirecTV upsetting out-of-town fans of Major League Baseball -- like Senator John Kerry?

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What They Watched

Bob Hennelly, WNYC Reporter discusses the scope of the NYPD surveillance activities.

Baseball Confidential

Rich Thomaselli, reporter for Advertising Age magazine, tells us about the negotiations between Major League Baseball and DirecTV which would give DirecTV exclusive rights to air all baseball games.

Another Story

Dave Isay, public radio producer and founder of the StoryCorps oral history project, talks about their new project gathering the life stories of African American families across the country; along with Lonnie Bunch, founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History & Culture, which is collaborating on the project.

Deal Makers

Tom Duane, state senator (D-29th district-Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, Upper West Side, Union Square, Stuyvesant) and E.J. McMahon, senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies, at the Manhattan Institute, look at the budget deal struck in Albany.

Sub Prime Time

Juan Gonzalez, Daily News columnist and Mark Winston Griffith , Co-Director of NEDAP, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, on the impact in New York of default on sub prime mortgages.