How is AOC Doing So Far?; Lockdowns at School; Jill Abramson on the Truth and the News; Oscar Docs: Hale County This Morning, This Evening
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 20, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Juan Manuel Benítez, Spectrum News NY1 Noticias reporter and host of Pura Politica, and host of the new podcast "Off Topic On Politics," and Brigid Bergin, City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, discuss how Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has been doing so far in Congress as well as her stance on the Amazon HQ2 pullout.
- John Woodrow Cox, enterprise reporter at The Washington Post, talks about how schools are preparing - and in some cases traumatizing — students for shootings, even as those incidents are still technically rare.
- Jill Abramson, political columnist for the Guardian, former executive editor of The New York Times, and author of Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts (Simon & Schuster, 2019), talks about her new book and responds to the plagiarism charges.
- RaMell Ross, filmmaker, talks about "Hale County This Morning, This Evening" — his Oscar-nominated feature-length documentary.
