Reporting Stories and Influencing People: 2 - The Machines

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 19, 2011

Continuing a series of conversations, Brooke Gladstone, host and managing editor of WNYC’s On the Media, talks about her new book, The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media, which is a work of graphic nonfiction illustrated by Josh Neufeld and which explains the history and workings of the media. Today: media machines throughout history. 

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