This week, a full hour of highlights from our exploration of liberal bias and public media, which we conducted in March of 2011. Brooke talks to NPR listeners, pollsters, media watchers, and This American Life’s Ira Glass in search of an answer to the question: does NPR have a liberal bias?
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Does NPR Have a Liberal Bias?
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Should politicians be held to a higher ethical standard? - Sept 14, 2012
Toronto’s mayor Rob Ford is getting a lot of heat for coaching football during office hours and apparently using city staff to help him. Some people believe we don’t need to hold politicians to impossibly high ethical standards. And others believe we need impossibly high ethical standards because we have politicians.
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189: Interactions, Agreements, Suspicions
Spark from CBC Radio: Anil Dash takes a stand on Terms of Service agreements. Gregg Bernstein on designing Terms of Service aesthetically. Andy Sheppard gets philosophical about computer music. James Grimmelmann examines reselling legally purchased digital music. Karl Fast argues for deep interaction with information. And we ask the question: Have you ever been suspicious of someone because they aren’t on Facebook?
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Day 6 - September 15, 2012
Embassy Attacks End Arab Spring? | Chris Kluwe, Homophobia and the NFL | Vertical Farms | Ahmadinejad calls John Baird | Hollywood goes Electronica | The Bugle’s Andy Zaltzman election advice | Slavoj Zizek at the Movies
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Eating squirrels, The Myth of the Muslim Tide, country singer Corb Lund 09/03/2012
Our new season launches with food writer Mike Sula who advocates eating urban squirrels. Journalist Doug Saunders on his new book "The Myth of the Muslim Tide." Alt-folk and country singer Corb Lund on his new album "Cabin Fever. Q: The Podcast from CBC Radio
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Mental Incompetence at Work - Sept 3, 2012
Labour Day is usually a day lots of people are grateful for a day off. But imagine the trauma of being forced from a job you love because of the uncontrollable consequences of dementia, a degenerative disease that affects your mind. There aren’t a lot of corporate "do’s and don’ts" on this one either. We’ve got an aging workforce so what are the ethics involved? The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
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Straightening the Record: A Doctor’s Apology - Sept 4, 2012
Robert Spitzer, a well known U.S. psychiatrist, conducted a study more than a decade ago which concluded gay people could be converted. This spring he admitted the study was faulty and apologized to the gay community. Now, despite the damage done, Dr. Robert Spitzer is looking for redemption. The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
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Robert Semrau: The Taliban Don’t Wave - Sept 4, 2012
Wars don’t get much more confusing than the one that still shakes the ground in Afghanistan. You can’t tell enemy combatants from farmers. Battlegrounds lack front lines. Into that whirlwind stepped the Canadian army and with them Captain Robert Semrau. His second combat tour in 2008 became his last. Robert Semrau has written a book about his days serving with OMLeT, the operational mentor liaison team… an inside, provocative and sometimes gruesome account. He’s never spoken publicly about the incident that ended his military career, but today Robert Semrau shares his story. The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights)
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Debate on single-sex classrooms, Actor Victor Garber, Torquil Campbell’s Rant or Rave, Critic J. Robert Lennon 09/04/2012
Education experts Mary Ladky and Lise Eliot debate single-sex classrooms. Veteran actor Victor Garber. Torquil Campbell’s Rant or Rave. Critic J. Robert Lennon on why it’s important to write a good review of a bad book.: The Podcast from CBC Radio
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That’s Democracy
A teacher gives his students lesson about democracy that they’ll never forget. Performed by Peter McNerney as Mr. Mohr, Russ Armstrong as Eric, and Alexis Lambright as Margaret, with Fiona Bradford, Teddy Shivers, Oscar Montoya, and Ben Jones as the principal. From an outline by Louis Kornfeld. Produced & directed by Jonathan Mitchell. The Truth
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