The Brian Lehrer Show
Bill Clinton’s Deep Pockets
Thursday, November 08, 2007
All the presidential candidates are using their spouses in their campaigns. But only one has an ex-president on hand. Help us find out the true financial impact of Bill Clinton on the Hillary Clinton campaign in our latest group journalism assignment. Also, the book version of the StoryCorps oral history project.
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Bill Clinton’s Deep Pockets
Help us find out the true financial impact of Bill Clinton on the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in our latest group journalism, or crowdsourcing, assignment. We're working with The Huffington Post's OffTheBus on this story. Find out how to take part.
OffTheBus editor Marc Cooper sets up the assignment, along with Ethan Hova, an OffTheBus contributor.
Dollar Blues
Adam Davidson, global economics correspondent for NPR, talks about the weak dollar and the effect on global markets.
Around the Corner is South Carolina
Leroy Chapman, government and politics editor at The State, the largest newspaper in South Carolina on the upcoming South Carolina Primary
The Company He Keeps
WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein looks at some of the people around Rudy Giuliani.
Immunity for Phone Companies?
Corey Boles, reporter for Down Jones Newswires and Emily Berman, counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, talk about whether phone companies will receive immunity in wiretapping cases.
Hearing with the Heart
Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded the life stories of ordinary Americans, some of which are collected for a new book and cd, Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Penguin, 2007). Dave Isay, public radio producer and the founder of StoryCorps and its parent company Sound Portraits, is joined by participants Mary Caplan and Ronald Ruiz to play excerpts from some of the stories and talk about the project.
Listening Is an Act of Love is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
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