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Impeachment Blackout
Impeachment Blackout? When senators deliberate on the President's fate, will they let you hear it or see it on TV? A look at the Senate rule that would close the deliberations and how broadcasters are lobbying to change it.
Guest: Kim Hume, Washington Bureau Chief, Fox News Network
Which Merits More Media coverage: Sex in the White House or lawmakers' ties to racist groups?
Are the media covering stories of Trent Lott and Bob Barr's past involvement with the Council of Conservative Citizens with appropriate journalistic gusto?
Guests: Ann McDaniels, Washington Bureau Chief, Newsweek Magazine
Stanley Crouch, columnist, New York Daily News
What should we tell the children?
Many parents and teachers have been up to their ears with questions from kids about the impeachment hearings and the incidents that led up to them. OTM's round robin panel looks at how different children's news publications and broadcasts have been covering this year's biggest story.
Guests: Claudia Wallis, managing editor, Time for Kids
Andrew Hill, president of programming, Channel One Network
David Goddy, vice president and editor-in-chief, Scholastic, Inc. Magazine Division
John Richards, general manager, Turner Learning, CNN
Listeners weigh in on what they think of the media.
The duPont Awards
At this year's prestigious Columbia Universty -duPont Awards ceremony four winners of the coveted Silver Baton were independent producers. Reporter Jessica Graham went to the ceremony to see what these independent producers did to make their work shine. Read more here.
Reporter: Jessica Graham
One more victim of the Lewinsky Scandal:
It looks as if though the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association is caught up in the politics of the impeachment trial. Last week the AMA fired its editor of seventeen years for supposedly interjecting a political agenda into the current issue by publishing a survey on whether college students consider oral sex to be sex. The incident raises numerous issues for the cautious world of the top science and medical journals. Is it wrong for a journal to publish a politically relevant article?
Guests: Dr. Jerome Kassirer, editor-in-chief, The New England Journal of Medicine
Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor, ABC News
Brooke and Brian:
NPR's Media Maven Brooke Gladstone and Brian take a loo at this week's media stories. For more about "the Worst Newspaper in America" go to www.CJR.org.
Guest: Brooke Gladstone, Media Correspondent, NPR
TV Critics
Twice a year the nation's television ctitics gater in Pasadena for a few weeks of eating, drinking and pitching-as the countries TV producers try to get as much press attention as they can for the shows they want you to see.
Correspondent Steve Futterman reports.
You've seen one search engine, you've seen them all?
This month Netscape Communications Corp. joins a raft of other search engines, as they're called, that are using high profile consumer ads to build a distinct brand image with an audience of 25-49 year olds who are educated and computer literate. But commentator John Carroll says the differences among these portal sites may soon be lost in cyberspace. Read more here.
Commentator: John Carroll
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