'Twitter Files' Controversy; Common Drug Shortage; Time Person of the Year; Shop Listener 2022

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 7, 2022

Coming up on today's show: 

  • Michael Grynbaum, media correspondent for the New York Times, explains controversies in the tech and media worlds surrounding Elon Musk's leak of internal Twitter documents to journalist Matt Taibbi. Musk handed over a trove of documents related to Twitter's decision to limit posts related to a story about Hunter Biden in 2020. The nature of the leak and Taibbi's story have set off debates about Musk's leadership and media ethics.
  • Dylan Scott, senior correspondent covering health care at Vox, explains why there are shortages of all sorts of medicine in the US, including Adderall, used to treat ADHD, amoxicillin, Tamiflu and others.
  • Simon Shuster, Time Magazine correspondent talks about the magazine's selection of Volodymyr Zelensky as their "Person of the Year" for 2022.
  • Shop Listener is back for a new holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out their businesses ahead of the holidays, for a Brian Lehrer Show listener-sourced gift guide.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.

 

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