Virtually Speaking

Jay Rosen and James Fallows discuss the evolution of news media over the last 20 years, or so, focusing on changing narratives on the balance between security and liberty and 4th Amendment protections raised by the Transportation Security Admin (TSA) airport practices; WikiLeaks and the failure of the watchdog press; and 'village' thinking and the effects of 'conventional wisdom.'

Both wrote prescient books: respectively, What are Journalists For? and Breaking the News

Follow @JamesFallows @JayRosen_NYU @JayAckroyd

Recorded Dec 10, 2010

Links

• http://pressthink.org/

• http://www.theatlantic.com/james-fallows

• http://www.thenation.com/article/156647/tsastroturf-washington-lobbyists-and-koch-funded-libertarians-behind-tsa-scandal?comment_sort=ASC#

• http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/05/if-the-tsa-were-running-new-york/39839/

• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/11/more-on-the-undercover-tsa-officers/29981/

• http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/12/23/wikileaks-analysis-and-speculative-fiction/

Recorded earlier today

Tom Levenson - Prof of Writing at MIT - talks with Science Writer and author Jennifer Ouellette. They talk about surviving the zombi apocalypse and other uses of abstract math. Tom wrote about it here: http://inversesquare.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/5688/

Follow @TomLevenson @JenLucPiquant

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/

http://www.jenniferouellette-writes.com/

http://www.scienceandentertainmentexchange.org

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/29/for-a-good-time-on-the-tubes-self-aggrandizement-alert/

Feather & Hammer Drop on Moon>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk

From Culture of Truth this week's 'most ridiculous moment' - satirical commentary drawn from the Sunday morning 'news' shows - entitled Duty to Prosperity.

Transcript posted to the Bobblespeak Translations at http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/meet-press-august-26-2012.html

Pink and blue. Jay (@jayackroyd) talks with Jo Paoletti (@jbpaoletti) about the contributions of nature and nurture in gender identity formation.

An Assoc Prof in the American Studies Dept at the Univ of Maryland, Jo Paoletti's  research explores how consumer culture shapes identity and how "identity work" influences consumer culture. Follow @JBPaoletti

Links

Jo Paoletti: http://www.pinkisforboys.org/

Sarah Hoffman: http://www.sarahhoffmanwriter.com/

Labels are for Jars: http://labelsareforjars.wordpress.com/

Anne Fausto-Sterling: http://www.annefaustosterling.com/blog

Peggy Orenstein: http://peggyorenstein.com/blog.html

Princess Free Zone: http://www.princessfreezone.com/

Hanne Blank, author of Straight: http://www.hanneblank.com/

Jo's current book project - inspired by the War on Women - is about the 1960s and '70s. Tentative title: "Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism and the Sexual Revolution."

Stuart and Jay discuss the evolution of American foreign policy, and the conundrum of a movement liberal's foreign policy.

Jay Ackroyd (@jayackroyd) discusses the past week of political and policy developments with David Waldman (@KagroX);

Origins and logic of voter supression, voter ID efforts, drawing upon military history; Rep.Todd Akin's 'black magical' assertions that 'legitiamate rape' does not result in pregnancy; media non-coverage of false claims and assertions made by political campaigns and possible remedies.

Read David http://www.congressmatters.com/

In the current 'Riduciulous Moment,' Culture of Truth satirizes the targeting of Joe Biden by the David Gregory on Sunday morning.

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/meet-press-august-26-2012.html

Recorded 8/15.

Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle (Science Editor NBCNews.com) talks with planetary scientist Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto.

July marks the three-year countdown to New Horizons’ Pluto flyby....read more at Cosmic Log:  http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/15/13299431-whats-uwingu-space-funding-venture-isnt-just-for-space-fans?lite

And NASA http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/profile.cfm?Code=SternA

Indiegogo campaign http://www.indiegogo.com/p/180221

March 2011 conversation: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2011/03/15/alan-stern-alan-boylerobin-snelson

Jay and Eric Laursen discuss his book The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan.

An independent financial and political journalist, activist, and commentator, Eric Laursen began his journalistic career as a reporter for Wall Street Letter, a weekly newsletter for the financial services industry. While co-founder and managing editor of Plan Sponsor, the leading monthly magazine for North American pension executives, he became interested in the debate over Social Security.

Twitter https://twitter.com/#!/ericlaursen

Blog

http://peoplespension.infoshop.org/blogs-mu/

Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/peoplespension

Amazon http://www.amazon.com/The-Peoples-Pension-Struggle-Security/dp/1849351015

Stuart and Jay are back, live. They discuss neocons, where they came from, what they believe, and how they fit into the Conservative, Liberal, Centrist triangle that controls US policy and politics.

Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) and Avedon Carol (@Avedon_Says ) talk with @JayAckroyd about Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket. Featuring Culture of Truth's weekly commentary on the Sunday News Shows: The Most Ridiculous Thing that happened this Sunday

http://www.emptywheel.net/

http://sideshow.me.uk/

http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/bill-black-krugman-now-sees-the-perversity-of-economics-culture-of-fraud.html