Keep on Rocking in the Friedman World

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010
With Ford shuttering its plants, and GM sending its workers into early retirement, the US auto industry is ailing badly. New York Times columnist Tom Friedman says that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Plus: Irish reporter Carole Coleman, who angered President Bush with her probing questions, on putting the press back into pressure, Joel Klein and Noreen Conell on wooing teachers with homes, and 69 New Yorkers get caught in a Houdini moment over the East River.

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