Guests from the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News
Thursday 11/16/2006
Since March 2003, 86 journalists have been killed in Iraq and 43 have been kidnapped. In addition to the physical risk, those who cover war also face enormous psychological consequences. Psychiatrist ANTHONY FEINSTEIN has conducted a series of studies on the emotional toll of covering conflicts across the globe. His new book is "Journalists Under Fire: The Psychological Hazards of Covering War." Also, Philadelphia Inquirer photojournalist Peter Tobia. He has been to war zones around the world.
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Wednesday 11/15/2006
We get reaction to the pending sale of Thomas Eakins masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, from Inquirer writer STEPHAN SALISBURY, JULIE BERKOWITZ, former art historian at Thomas Jefferson University, GARY CARPENTER, a Jefferson graduate and pediatrician, and DONN ZARETSKY, a lawyer specializing in fine art.
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Thursday 10/20/2006
We talk with two Philadelphia Inquirer reporters about findings of their investigation of child-abuse deaths at the Department of Human Services. JOHN SULLIVAN is public health reporter and KEN DILANIAN is investigative reporter for the paper. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
Thursday 2/16/2006
Ugandan teenager Jennifer Anyayo was brought to Philadelphia to receive
treatment for terrible burns she suffered when the Lord's Resistance Army
torched her home knowing she was inside. CAROLYN DAVIS of the Editorial
Board of the Philadelphia Inquirer ABITIMO ODONGKARA, founder of UNIFAT, a
school which serves 1500 students in Gulu, Uganda, and CRAIG DUFRESNE,
plastic and reconstructive surgeon, update us about Jennifer and the plight
of many other children in Uganda. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
Thursday 1/19/2006
How nurses, doctors, patients and families grapple with end-of-life decisions with MICHAEL VITEZ, Inquirer writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his series "Seeking a Good Death," PETER RASMUSSEN, Oregon oncologist who was a plaintiff in the Supreme Court case against John Ashcroft, and BERNADETTE DUGAN, a hospice nurse with the Lippincott Family Hospice Program of Fox Chase Cancer Center. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
Wednesday 1/18/2006
Fallout from the Abramoff scandal - who is in the running to replace Tom Delay and can congress can police its own members when it comes to ethics? Our guests are DICK POLMAN, Political Analyst for the Philadelphia Inquirer, TREVOR POTTER of the Campaign Legal Center and MELANIE SLOAN of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
Friday 1/13/2006
The James Frey memoir controversy. Our guests are SmokingGun.com report Joseph Jisselli and Philadelphia Inquirer books columnist and critic Carlin Romano. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
Tuesday 1/3/2006
Pennsylvania's Gold Rush: Slot gambling update. In 2006, Pennsylvania will award 14 gaming licenses. To learn more about this we talk with JOHN SULLIVAN who is covering the development of slot gambling for The Philadelphia Inquirer, TAD DECKER is chair of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, and from CARL ZEITZ is a former member of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission from 1980-1988, and from BILL EADINGTON, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. Listen to this show via Real Audio | mp3
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