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September 15, 1996 Programs
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1100 - 1159 Hour #1 Campaign Coverage
1200 - 1259 Hour #2 Doing Astronomy
1300 - 1359 Hour #3 Life Stories
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 1:Campaign Coverage
SEGMENT 1:
Media critic Jay Rosen thinks campaigns should be about
debating the issues. He tells Judith Strasser that the
media obsessively focus on winners and losers resulting
in the worst possible campaign coverage. Rosen directs
the Project on Public Life and the Press at New York
University. Also, Bob Woodward tells Steve Paulson how
he rates the media coverage of the Clinton and Dole
campaigns. Woodward is an assisting managing editor at
the Washington Post, and the author of several books,
including "The Choice."
SEGMENT 2:
In addition to being public television's most visible
journalist, Jim Lehrer is also a novelist. He tells Jim
Fleming about his book "The Last Debate" -- a sort of
fable on journalistic ethics during a volatile
presidential campaign. Lehrer is host of the PBS show
"News Hour with Jim Lehrer."
SEGMENT 3:
Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson tallk with Steve Paulson
about the crack team of reporters who, with Edward R.
Murrow, set the standard for broadcast journalism. Cloud
and Olson are the authors of "The Murrow Boys: Pioneers
on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
09-15-A.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN Hour 2:Doing Astronomy
SEGMENT 1:
Astonomer Paul vanden Bout talks with Jim Fleming about
radio astonomy and the discoveries it has made possible.
Vanden Bout directs the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory - a facility of the National Science
Foundation. Also, astronomer Anita Cochran talks with
Judith Strasser about comets and explains that they're
just rocky ice balls in space. Cochran studies comets at
the University of Texas MacDonald Observatory.
SEGMENT 2:
Gale Christianson tells Judith Strasser about the
achievements of astronomer Edwin Hubble (for whom the
space telescope is named) and why it's fair to say we're
living in Hubble's universe. Christianson is the author
of "Edwin Hubble: Mariner of the Nebulae."
SEGMENT 3:
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin (who walked on the moon with Neil
Armstrong) tells Steve Paulson why he thinks manned space
flights are essential and that ordinary people should get
to go into space. Aldrin has written a science fiction
book with John Barnes called "Encounter with Tiber."
Also, Jim Fleming ends the hour with Walt Whitman's poem
"When I heard the learn'd astronomer."
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
9-15-B.
PROGRAM RUNDOWN: HOUR 3: Life Stories
SEGMENT 1
Psychotherapist Mandy Aftel tells Jim Fleming about
"narrative therapy," and how people can change their
lives by rewriting their life-scripts. Also, human
potential advocate Jean Houston tells Steve Paulson that
most people use only a tiny portion of their basic
equipment, and recalls memorable meetings with Helen
Keller and Edgar Bergen's dummy Charlie McCarthy.
SEGMENT 2:
Patrice Gaines is a reporter at the Washington Post. In
her book "Laughing in the Dark," and in this conversation
with Judith Strasser, she talks about how she went from
being a middle-class military child to a junkie with a
prison record, and how she finally regained control of
her life. The complete title of Patrice Gaines' book is
"Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of
Color - a journey from prison to power."
SEGMENT 3:
Writer Victor Villasenor has collected family stories in
his book "Wild Steps of Heaven." He tells Steve Paulson
about the time his grandfather was attacked by a snake
that stood seven feet tall (really!) and about his own
school days as a Spanish-speaker in an American school.
For cassette copies of this hour, call 1-800-747-7444, and ask for program number
9-15-C.
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