Archive for April, 2009

bmtv101 Journalists Held in North Korea

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

cross posted on the Metroblogs Global Conspiracy It has been more than a month since CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korean authorities on the China-North Korea border. Yet relatively little has been made public about what their status is as well as what the US government or their media... »

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Trial That Sould be Center Stage

Monday, April 27th, 2009
Trial That Sould be Center Stage

“If the Corps didn’t do its job, somebody should be held responsible. Somebody’s got to answer to something.” – The words of a former Lower Ninth Ward resident who lost a daughter to the flood waters that would swallow up his entire house. The lawsuit filed... »

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Stats can lie

Friday, April 24th, 2009
Stats can lie

David Simon, creator of The Wire, was on Bill Moyers journal this past week.  Before getting into the world of writing and directing television, he was a journalist in Baltimore for many years. At that job he got to watch how the police force, city government, and school system work, or perhaps we could... »

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bm301 Observing Change in El Salvador

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
bm301 Observing Change in El Salvador

20 years ago Warwick Fry was in El Salvador covering the guerilla offensive at the height of a civil war.  This year he returned, this time to observe elections, the results of which mean the first change in leadership for El Salvador in 20 years. He joins me on this podcast to explain what... »

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Shipping Carbon Dangers

Monday, April 20th, 2009
Shipping Carbon Dangers

Back in 2007, following my trip to New Orleans, I did a podcast with my friend Damian who works down there, on the topic of emission from the shipping industry.  In case you missed that one, here’s the link. The basic concern that led me to do that podcast was that much of the climate... »

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