ON THE MEDIA FOR FEEDS 9/11/98 AND 9/13/98

1. STARR REPORT: MEDIA PROPHECY COME TRUE?

Kenneth Starr has sent his report to Congress: What role did the media play in the way this story has evolved?
GUESTS:
JONATHAN ALTER, senior editor, Newsweek
DAVID BROOKS, columnist New Republic

2. COMMENTARY: BASEBALL: ENOUGH ALREADY! COMMENTATOR: STEVE RUSHIN, writer, Sports Illustrated

3. CHINA ARRESTS, THEN RELEASES CBS FREELANCE REPORTER

In Beijing last week, the detention and arrest of a CBS freelancer served as a reminder of the risks of reporting in China. Natalie Liu, a Chinese citizen with permanent resident status in the U.S., was interrogated for sixteen hours by Chinese officials and released just before a high profile Human Rights official toured the country.
GUESTS:
ORVILLE SCHELL, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley
LENA SUN, Reporter, Washington Post
NATALIE LIU, freelance reporter for CBS News, arrested by Chinese government

4. HATE RADIO SURFACES IN AFRICA AGAIN
The United Nations Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handed down its first convictions stemming from the 1994 massacres that ripped Rwanda apart. Earlier this month, the court found the country's former prime minister, and a former small town mayor guilty of genocide. The two are among 31 Rwandans detained by the tribunal and charged with orchestrating the killings. One of the tools used to target victims and rally support for the killings was hate radio and it appears to have returned to the region. Mark Bevis of Common Ground Radio reports.

5. BROOKE AND BRIAN ON MEDIA HAPPENINGS

6. Commentary: New TV Season Commentator: Marvin Kitman, Media Critic, Newsday

7. TEENS, TV AND SEX

Along with the new TV season comes a lot of sex. But while everyone talks about how violence on TV affects kids, what about sex? Maura Howe reports on Dawson's Creek and sex on TV aimed at teens.
HOST: BRIAN LEHRER

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