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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
