Virtually Speaking

A special segment of Virtually Speaking Sunday: Maple Syrup Edition with Our Man in Abiko on #Quakebook, the Japanese Red Cross and naked tweeting.

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature and political realities of liberalism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

9pm eastern John Campbell of the Africa Desk at the Council of Foreign Relations, former ambassador to Nigeria and author of Dancing on the Brink and Marcy Wheeler, author of Anatomy of Deceit, discuss the tension between diplomatic confidentiality and democratic ideals.

Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Tonight she talks with Nicole Sandler.

Prof. Jay Rosen, teaches journalism and directs the Studio 20 program at NYU, critiques the press and studies new media. And he 'mindcasts' on Twitter.  

In this rare and sill timely Sunday special, Rosen and Stuart Zechman talk about the ideology of the press, the brand that is David Broder and Third Way Democratic constructs about social safety net programs.

They begin from Prof. Jay Rosen's PressThink post "Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press" ( http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html ), and Stuart's response in commentary ( http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html#comment53936 ).

In hour 2, Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman reflect and comment further.

Edited March 31, 2013

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature and political realities of liberalism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

Economist Warren Mosler joins Jay... Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending? Modern Monetary Theory says no. Co-Author 'Understanding Modern Money.' Author 'The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy.'

Download pdf at http://moslereconomics.com/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler

Dan Ellsberg discusses Wilileaks, the role of whistleblowers, and their endangered future.

8pm eastern - Maple Syrup Edition - @OurManinAbiko on #quakebook and Dr Dawg on the Canadian General Election and the contempt charges brought against the Govt for withholding information from Parliament.

9pm eastern: Evolutionary biologist and author of the science blog Pharyngula, PZ Myers and Jay discuss the role of empiricism and reality in modern society. And zebrafish genomes

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature and political realities of liberalism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.