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1. Cash For Kidneys? Poll Shows Approval For Organ Donation Compensation

   It’s illegal to sell your organs. But a recent NPR poll found that 6 in 10 Americans support giving organ donors compensation in the form of health care credits, and 4 in 10 thought donors could be paid in cold hard cash. We talk to a sociologist who studies organ donation and take listener calls.

   http://kuow.org/program.php?id=26839

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2. Retraction | This American Life

   We’ve discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey’s story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace’s China correspondent Rob Schmitz discovered the fabrications. Transcript. Press Release.

   http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction

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3. Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything

   Interviews on media and democracy with media scholar Robert W. McChesney

   http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/show/march-27th-2011/

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