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The Brian Lehrer Show

Font of Wisdom

Monday, September 10, 2007

Wendell Jamieson, city editor for The New York Times and the author of Father Knows Less or "Can I Cook My Sister?": One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007), talks about answering kids' questions, from the whimsical to the more serious.

Father Knows Less is available for purchase at Amazon.com.


Comments

  • [1] Trevor from LIC September 10, 2007 - 11:48AM

    Who is producing this show? This segment is fine, but following a report on Iraq war money disappearances? A better segue would help the audience think about certain issues in toto. Would it kill the show to have slight "theme", or does all journalistic endeavour have to imiate the wretched "The Believer" and vy for some sort of brainy, irreverent "randomness"?

    The intention is an engaging discussion of a wide scope of news topics; the effect is an inane, clumsy gearshifting.


  • [2] Gabriel Hunter from NYC September 10, 2007 - 11:51AM

    I doubt you have the answer to this but I have a question, which would hurt worse being shot by a gun or being shot with an arrow?


  • [3] Kenneth Noelsch September 10, 2007 - 05:01PM

    BL show, Sept. 10, 2007

    Re: airplane hitting Empire State building.

    IT happened allready.

    in the 1940s ( during WW II ? By a B-17 ?)

    It is still there.


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