#AskTheMayor; Friday Morning Politics; The Eights | Rise of Liberal Media; 'Bullshit Jobs'
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 15, 2018
- Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Julie Hirschfeld Davis, White House correspondent for the New York Times, discusses the latest in national politics.
- Eric Deggans, TV critic at NPR and author of Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation, discuss the rise of partisan media and social media in 2008 and how it contributed to the modern Culture Wars. He is joined by Celeste Headlee, a public radio host and author of We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter.
- David Graeber, professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and author of Debt and Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, follows up on his viral essay about how many of us work at jobs that seem useless, what purpose they serve and what it would take to change them.
