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Interesting Terry Gross interviews today
Fresh Air on 4/1/03
Guests:
Joseph Cirincione specializes in defense and proliferation issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is senior associate and director of the Non-Proliferation Project. He will discuss the evolution of the Bush administration's policy toward Iraq. It's origins begin with a small group of influential officials and experts in Washington, D.C., who were calling for regime change in Iraq long before Sept. 11, 2001.
William Kristol is editor of the conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. He also chairs the neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century. He is one of the architects of the blueprint for regime change found in the document "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century."
Guests:
Joseph Cirincione specializes in defense and proliferation issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is senior associate and director of the Non-Proliferation Project. He will discuss the evolution of the Bush administration's policy toward Iraq. It's origins begin with a small group of influential officials and experts in Washington, D.C., who were calling for regime change in Iraq long before Sept. 11, 2001.
William Kristol is editor of the conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard. He also chairs the neo-conservative think tank, Project for the New American Century. He is one of the architects of the blueprint for regime change found in the document "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century."
Fresh Air has had some great interviews the past week. Yesterday was an interview with Anthony Shadid, one of the last remaining journalists in Bagdad. His description of the street were very surprising to me. Not nearly as much opposition as one would expect.
I heard that today. It was great.
If you want to hear more about the formation of the Bush Doctrine you should watch the Frontline program on it. You can actually watch it online here.
Listen to the Fresh Air show as well. William Kristol sounded pretty good (for being a ultra-conservative). He didn't sound like too much of an idealogue. He was more flexible than I thought he would be. Although I think he is starting to realize the type of mess we could/are in now in the region.
OT - There's a new Frontline coming on Thurs called Blair's War. Here's a synopsis:
For the past few months, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been fighting the biggest political battle of his career. Caught in the center of a high stakes political storm, he tried to personally bridge the gap between the United States and its European allies - particularly France and Germany - over the impending war in Iraq. Frontline examines the roots of the discord within the Western Alliance, the perilous role Blair has played, and the stakes for him and the West should this old alliance fall apart.
If you want to hear more about the formation of the Bush Doctrine you should watch the Frontline program on it. You can actually watch it online here.
Listen to the Fresh Air show as well. William Kristol sounded pretty good (for being a ultra-conservative). He didn't sound like too much of an idealogue. He was more flexible than I thought he would be. Although I think he is starting to realize the type of mess we could/are in now in the region.
OT - There's a new Frontline coming on Thurs called Blair's War. Here's a synopsis:
For the past few months, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been fighting the biggest political battle of his career. Caught in the center of a high stakes political storm, he tried to personally bridge the gap between the United States and its European allies - particularly France and Germany - over the impending war in Iraq. Frontline examines the roots of the discord within the Western Alliance, the perilous role Blair has played, and the stakes for him and the West should this old alliance fall apart.
Listen to the Fresh Air show as well. William Kristol sounded pretty good (for being a ultra-conservative). He didn't sound like too much of an idealogue. He was more flexible than I thought he would be. Although I think he is starting to realize the type of mess we could/are in now in the region.
I don't think so. While I don't agree with all of his positions, he has been rather characatured by the left. His position basically is that we ought to project strength and that the position of the past where we let expediency rule over our principles was wrong. Thus if we do need to deal with a nation for our own defense, we ought to simultaneously allow them self-determination. Thus it is an acknowledgement that American policy in the cold war produced things like the Shah of Iran, Sadaam, and many more tyrants.
Where I have trouble with him and his magazine is that he does the same sort of strawman attacks of the left that they do on him.
But if you are interested, here is a collection of his essays from his web site.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weekly/weekly.asp
I don't think so. While I don't agree with all of his positions, he has been rather characatured by the left. His position basically is that we ought to project strength and that the position of the past where we let expediency rule over our principles was wrong. Thus if we do need to deal with a nation for our own defense, we ought to simultaneously allow them self-determination. Thus it is an acknowledgement that American policy in the cold war produced things like the Shah of Iran, Sadaam, and many more tyrants.
Where I have trouble with him and his magazine is that he does the same sort of strawman attacks of the left that they do on him.
But if you are interested, here is a collection of his essays from his web site.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weekly/weekly.asp
Thanks, I'll give them a read. I've never actually read anything by him. I've only seen him or heard him on TV & radio.
Again, I was surprised by his reasoning. Not that he convinced me to radically change my thinking but he didn't seem to be such a staunch idealogue.
Have you listened to that Fresh Air?
Again, I was surprised by his reasoning. Not that he convinced me to radically change my thinking but he didn't seem to be such a staunch idealogue.
Have you listened to that Fresh Air?
I regularly listen to NPR. You may be surprised to know that according to the rating surveys they have more Republican listeners than Democrat. Also surprising as a tangent, I heard O'Reilly tonight while getting info on that rescue. He said that about half his audience were Democrats. That surprised me even more than the NPR stats.
I'd have to say though that the best source of news on TV, Newspaper, or Radio is the Diane Rehm show. I know not all public radio stations carry her, so here's a link so you can listen.
http://www.wamu.org/dr/
Fantastic interviews - and they last a full hour so you actually get more than a soundbite from them. While she is definitely a liberal, she is very fair about bringing on conservative guests. She is also one of the better interviewers I've heard.
Usually she has one hour about current events and an other about literature or art. (Although during busy news cycles both will be hard news)
I'd have to say though that the best source of news on TV, Newspaper, or Radio is the Diane Rehm show. I know not all public radio stations carry her, so here's a link so you can listen.
http://www.wamu.org/dr/
Fantastic interviews - and they last a full hour so you actually get more than a soundbite from them. While she is definitely a liberal, she is very fair about bringing on conservative guests. She is also one of the better interviewers I've heard.
Usually she has one hour about current events and an other about literature or art. (Although during busy news cycles both will be hard news)
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Interesting. I also listen to NPR quite a bit (WAMU and WETA) and have done for years. But Diane Rehm has always driven me up the wall. I don't find her to be fair at all. She has a tendency to cut critics off in mid stride and to launch into long editorials during interviews. She is particularly bad with any call-in speaker with whom she disagrees.
That's not the case with all of the NPR people. I'm particularly impressed with Kojo Nahmde. He has always struck me as being very fair. The same goes for Kojo's predecessor in his slot, Derek McGinty (I miss his show big time!). Ray Suarez is pretty fair as well.
She has a tendency to cut critics off in mid stride and to launch into long editorials during interviews. She is particularly bad with any call-in speaker with whom she disagrees.
I don't think that's accurate. At least I've not seen it in the year and a half since my station started carrying her.
She'll cut off callers who are impolite or don't get to the point. But you have to do that with callers. It is the biggest frustration with call in shows. Indeed I often cringe when the calls begin because I often think they don't do enough pre-screening.
I don't see long editorials, although her biases do come out sometimes. She only cuts off interviewees when they are avoiding a question or rambling. Seems fair. All good interviewers do that. In fact the sign of a good interviewer to me is someone who can cut people off and keeping them on the point.
Her week in review on Fridays is particularly good. There she has three reporters, one from the left (typically the Nation), one from the center and one from the right. They then analyze the news. Far better than similar shows on TV. Very good analysis and much needed in a time when far too much news is so focused on the short term information that an overview for the week is often missing. (Outside of magazines like Time, Newsweek, etc.)
I don't think that's accurate. At least I've not seen it in the year and a half since my station started carrying her.
She'll cut off callers who are impolite or don't get to the point. But you have to do that with callers. It is the biggest frustration with call in shows. Indeed I often cringe when the calls begin because I often think they don't do enough pre-screening.
I don't see long editorials, although her biases do come out sometimes. She only cuts off interviewees when they are avoiding a question or rambling. Seems fair. All good interviewers do that. In fact the sign of a good interviewer to me is someone who can cut people off and keeping them on the point.
Her week in review on Fridays is particularly good. There she has three reporters, one from the left (typically the Nation), one from the center and one from the right. They then analyze the news. Far better than similar shows on TV. Very good analysis and much needed in a time when far too much news is so focused on the short term information that an overview for the week is often missing. (Outside of magazines like Time, Newsweek, etc.)
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Originally posted by clarkgoble: I don't think that's accurate. At least I've not seen it in the year and a half since my station started carrying her. |
Well, I've been listening to her since the late 1980s, but I will admit that it has been more than a year (and maybe two) since I have tuned in to her show. Maybe she mellowed after her throat-scraping?