Authors@Google: Brooke Gladstone
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Brooke Gladstone visits Google's New York, NY office to discuss her book "The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media." This event took place on September 26, 2011 as part of the Authors@Google series. Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them through the distortions and complexities of the modern... Read more
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- -: Authors@Google: Brooke Gladstone
October 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Brooke Gladstone visits Google's New York, NY office to discuss her book "The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media." This event took place on September 26, 2011 as part of the Authors@Google series. Nearly one million weekly listeners trust NPR's Brooke Gladstone to guide them thro...
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- -: Davar Ardalan - Human Rights Reforms in Iran
January 24, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=570 Iranian-American journalist Davar Ardalan discusses the current state of human rights reform in Iran. ----- Davar Ardalan tells her story of love, rejection, and revolution in "My Name is Iran," tracing her personal journey as well as...
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- -: Origins of the Word 'Google' - Roy Blount, Jr.
November 25, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/11/10/Roy_Blount_Jr_The_Sounds_Roots_and_History_of_Words Humorist author Roy Blount, Jr. examines the origins of the word "google" - originally spelled "googol" - and the history of its relationship with the world's most popular internet search engine. --...
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- -: Sarah Vowell on the "Smart-Alecky" Geneva Bible
January 9, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/10/18/Sarah_Vowell_The_Wordy_Shipmates In an excerpt from her book "The Wordy Shipmates," essayist and public radio commentator Sarah Vowell explains the difference between the Geneva Bible and the King James Bible. Vowell identifies the former scripture as...
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- -: Christopher Buckley Fabricates His Autobiography
June 4, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/05/18/Christopher_Buckley_In_Conversation_with_Calvin_Trillin Political satirist and author Christopher Buckley tells of how he fabricated the "About the Author" section of his latest book. Among the many fibs, one claim returned to haunt him in surprising ...
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- -: Is Jon Stewart's "The Daily Show" Good for Democracy?
February 20, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/12/Reaching_the_Audience_in_a_Fragmented_Media_Landscape Journalists Rachel Davis Mersey and Ted Anthony defend "The Daily Show" from NPR's Ira Glass, who argues that the program, while good satire, is a poor substitute for actual, in-depth news coverage...
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- -: Frontline on iPad: The Future of Investigative Journalism?
April 28, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/16/Logan_Symposium_Investigative_Reporting_on_TV David Fanning, award-winning producer of the investigate documentary series Frontline, speculates on the Apple iPad's potential as a platform for the series. He finds the iPad "very exciting," and sees it ...
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- -: Does Sci-Fi Influence the Future?
February 8, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete Premium video at: http://fora.tv/conference/world_tech_summit_awards Tech Nation's Moira Gunn and science fiction author Paul Levinson explore the influence of sci-fi on technological breakthroughs of the future, from space exploration to time travel. ----- On November 30th and Decemb...
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- -: Could NPR Survive Without Federal Funding?
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2011/04/05/Vivian_Schiller_Roundtable_Breakfast Vivian Schiller, former head of NPR, discusses the possible impacts if Congress were to eliminate federal funding for public radio. Schiller notes that large-market stations would likely survive thanks to the avail...
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