npr, look. npr is a fantastic news organization, but it has a style. it has a cadence, but it is not our style, and it is not our cadence. >> you began working there in 1988? >> 1987. i was an editor on a show, and then i was an editor on "all things considered." >> two voices on npr. can you talk about how they schooled you in that cadence? what is the npr voice speak? >> well, for one thing, you lift your soft palate. i will tell you how that sounds. now, sitting comfortably in my seat, i will say, from new york, i am brooke gladstone. if i was filling in, i would say -- voice] you see, that is much nicer. but it requires putting air over your soft palate, and that is way too much work for me. there is, you know, i studied acting in college, and i remember my first time on the radio, i went to the university of vermont, and there was a shakespeare festival there, and i was doing commercials for the festival, and i would lift my soft palate, and i would say -- voice] air-conditioned and sporting its new seats, the champlain festival offers its most co

npr, look. npr is a fantastic news organization, but it has a style. it has a cadence, but it is not our style, and it is not our cadence. >> you began working there in 1988? >> 1987. i was an editor on a show, and then i was an editor on "all things considered." >> two voices on npr. can you talk about how they schooled you in that cadence? what is the npr voice speak? >> well, for one thing, you lift your soft palate. i will tell you how that sounds. now, sitting comfortably in my seat, i will say, from new york, i am brooke gladstone. if i was filling in, i would say -- [speaking in different voice] [speaking in regular voice] you see, that is much nicer. but it requires putting air over your soft palate, and that is way too much work for me. there is, you know, i studied acting in college, and i remember my first time on the radio, i went to the university of vermont, and there was a shakespeare festival there, and i was doing commercials for the festival, and i would lift my soft palate, and i would say -- [speaking in different voice] air-conditi

she has been at npr for many years. including a three-year stint in moscow where she covered the last years of president boris yeltsin's term. i know that all of you diehard o the media" groupies will tell you that there is something about brooke that pulls you in. ira glass, host of this american life, put it right when he wrote, just like welcome gladwell, michael pollan, and michael lewis, brooke can take any subject, even something you do not give a damn about, and make it of interest. please welcome two-time peabody award winner brooke gladstone. [applause]>> thank you, catherine. thank you, brooke, for coming tonight. i would like to start with your book. you talk about a number of media biases. one of favorites is the narrative bias. that the media takes a story, no matter what it is, they have to come up with a beginning, a middle, and an end. we have just gone through an election in which there were thousands of just such recorded events. i am wondering, do you think we have a lot when presidential elections ar

i'm sure it wasn't on npr.[laughter] estimate but slowly it became a primary source of news, which made it less quirky but also maintain the ability to go longer. i was once at a conference of redo professionals in new orleans where people were talking about their stories and how they have these discussions and someone said we have had a real breakthrough on our station because i guess 90 seconds of the story and everyone said wow. my average story when i was a correspondent for npr, my average story was seven and a half minutes. lots of voices sound you can slow down a little, you can write a little and bring people with you. and you don't have to harangue them. >> there's no commercials? >> i'm sure that's part of it. the sound itself isn't as compressed. if you put compression on the radio signal, you have fewer -- it will be louder in the center but you will have less of a dynamic range. this is pretty wonky but they contribute to the sound. mostly i think it is an intention of a place where you can think.

. >> brook gladstone is the npr host of "on the media." she is the author of a new book on the history and influence of the media called, "the influencing machine." this is one hour, 20 minutes. >> our moderator tonight is the professor of media studies at fordham university, the author of four books on cultural programming, and he was the head of special projects for 50 years. he frequently moderates events around the city for the screen actors guild, and for us. ampa, bafta, and more. please welcome brian rose. next, we could not be more honored and delighted to have brooke gladstone here tonight. she is the managing editor and co-host of npr. she hosts "on the media." her new book is "the influencing machine." i just want to let you know we will be doing a signing of her book. the paperback has just come out. she has been at npr for many years. she covered the last turbulent years. i know all of you media groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that just pulls you in. each week, even at 7:00 a.m. on saturday -- ira

we face it when we're interviewing people on npr. you talking to that person on the extreme right? why are you talking to that person on the extreme left? we hear that from listeners. why are you putting on this person who makes absolutely no sense? and at some point you have to get a variety of voices out there and trust people to carefully listen to them and their arguments. >> well, being one of those people on the conservative side, i think often you get painted as you don't love and care for people. i desperately love people, but even in your article, chris, there was a section there where the president is talking about sort of stabilizing debt. well, if you actually look at what's really going on in the charts, medicare, the medicare trust fund may be empty in 40 months. that loving and saving people dealing with really uncomfortable issues like that instead of living in a world of rhetorical, you know -- >> but, congressman, the problem is in washington, d.c. is your way or the highway. i mean the republicans won't touch taxes

npr, look. npr is a fantastic news organization, but it has a style. it has a cadence, but it is not our style, and it is not our cadence. >> you began working there in 1988? >> 1987. i was an editor on a show, and then i was an editor on "all things considered." >> two voices on npr. can you talk about how they schooled you in that cadence? what is the npr voice speak? >> well, for one thing, you lift your soft palate. i will tell you how that sounds. now, sitting comfortably in my seat, i will say, from new york, i am brooke gladstone. if i was filling in, i would say -- [speaking in different voice] [speaking in regular voice] you see, that is much nicer. but it requires putting air over your soft palate, and that is way too much work for me. there is, you know, i studied acting in college, and i remember my first time on the radio, i went to the university of vermont, and there was a shakespeare festival there, and i was doing commercials for the festival, and i would lift my soft palate, and i would say -- [speaking in different voice] air-conditi

$5 million from a muslim organization to npr and npr accepted. >> bill: is he a conservative guy?yeah. i think you probably had him on the show before. >> bill: maybe back. >> is he very smart and clever and does these great videos. what you saw there were the people standing there pretending that they were antigun activists. they were actually members of this project veratos group. this is a whole foe group they created. >> instead of saying we are progun group or we don't like opposition to firearms. they pretend that they were on their side. >> exactly. they said hey, we have a sign that says this is a gun-free apartment, gun-free home would you put it up. >> none of the people would put it up. the journal news, you have talked about them. star ledger, new jersey, people who have been vocal about being anti--for stronger gun control. torre who is actually a friend of mine so i don't want to be too harsh on him from msnbc. >> bill: he came off the worst because he was stammering and stuttering and all this thing. how does this get out internet driven thing. >> one of the things,

she is the managing editor and coast of npr -- and co-host of npr.doing a her book. she has been at npr for many years. she covered the last turbulent years. i know all of you media groupies out there will agree there is something about brook that just pulls you in. each week, even at 7:00 a.m. on saturday, "just like michael lewis, brooke can somehow take any subject and make it very interesting." please welcome brooke gladstone. [applause] >> thank you. i would like to start with your book. in this book, you talk about a number of media biases. one of my favorites is the narrative bias. the media takes a story and, the matter what it is, has to come up with a beginning, middle, and and. we have -- end. we have just gone through an election where there were thousands of just such events. do you think we miss a lot when presidential elections are treated as a beginning, literally, the day after the last election is held. >> i am careful not to completely condemn it, because that is a big part of the story. the problem is that one gets completely fixa

for more on this i'm joined by npr's deborah amos. she's crossed into syria many times during the two-year long conflict, and is covering the conflict and its casualties closely. well, deborah, we were just reporting on the rebels inching closer to the capitol dam-- damascus. has the momentum changed in favor of the anti-assad force sfs. >> it seems now that we are in a stalemate. the fighting has really not moved. at the moment the regime still control can every major city in the country. and the rebels have not been able to change that balance. i think the focus of the fighting now is around two major airbases. the regime still controls the air. the rebels control most of the rural areas in the country, and two major cities are now in dispute. but the lines really haven't moved over the last couple of months. >> suarez: the anti-u.s. tone of the rebels is interesting. it em sos like it's been intensified even as the united states talks about delivering nonlethal aid to both civilians and the fighters themselves. how do you explain t

for more on this, i'm joined by npr's deborah amos. she's crossed into syria many times during the two-year long conflict, and is covering the conflict and its casualties closely. well, deborah, we were just reporting on the rebels inching closer to the capitol dam-- damascus. has the momentum changed in favor of the anti-assad force sfs. >> it seems now that we are in a stalemate. the fighting has really not moved. at the moment the regime still control can every major city in the country. and the rebels have not been able to change that balance. i think the focus of the fighting now is around two major airbases. the regime still controls the air. the rebels control most of the rural areas in the country, and two major cities are now in dispute. but the lines really haven't moved over the last couple of months. >> suarez: the anti-u.s. tone of the rebels is interesting. it em sos like it's been intensified even as the united states talks about delivering nonlethal aid to both civilians and the fighters themselves. how do you explain t

. >> woodruff: then, we talk to npr reporter deborah amos about the devastation in syria as the death toll in the two-year civil war climbs to over 60,000. >> brown: special correspondent john tulenko examines ohio's retention rule for schools-- finish third grade being able to read or be held back. >> up until third grade you're learning to read, after third grade you're

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is said and done, there are lots of people from the bush administration, high-visibility people -- npr on friday morning , one spoke extreme in the -- extremely well of hagel but the way that republicans are approaching cabinet appointments at the moment is different from what we've seen and the past. i am not sure whether it is a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing, and they will have their day in the sun, or whether they are serious about this. if they are, then harry reid has a proposal to change the rules and the senate and it might -- there are a few democrats who might have reservations about it. >> will take a week confirmed, evan -- chuck hagel be confirmed, evan? >> i think he will. he has a proud guy, but he doesn't like to be muzzled. he has a sort of assertive, ornery side to him, and in tough confirmation hearings, that can be trouble. >> in times of partisanship to where the lines are so hard and, colby, this guy has basically been a free spirit, as evan puts it, and has taken some from column a and some from column b. and made people angry. h is republican, and some

he made the comments this week in an interview with npr and now he went online yesterday and attempted to clarify his remarks saying he regrets using the term because it "stirs up too be negative emotion with the horrific association in the 20 the century." he said that he wants health care to be more competitive and will now refer to president obama's health care reform as "government controlled health care." >> controlled environment weather, not exactly. we have no control. >> despite what you hear there is no government controlled weather. yet. right? >> here we go. we are already getting in trouble for other's forecast and now you are doing that. i got an e-mail someone yelling at me about cupertino. 6:18. good morning to you. it is friday. we made it. the embarcardero, downtown san francisco, the trees are not moving. it is still outside. we will look at live doppler 7 hd. high pressure is over us. a lost dry air is detected. a little bit of pollution. that is another spare pair -- "spare the air" day. we could have a couple more on saturday and sunday. 27 in sap that rose and 30

annihilate >> john: wholes foods ceo john mackey made waves this week when he made the following comment to npr about the affordable care act. >> in fascism the government doesn't own the means of production but they do control it. that's what is happening with the healthcare program and these reforms. so i would say the systems are becoming more fascist. >> john: that will make me feel so bad when i buy a $9 of coke at whole foods. mackey said he regreeted using the word fascist because it has so much baggage to it. in a similar confused state sean hannity and a guest likened obama's push for sensible gun control in our nation to the rise of hitler and stalin. >> i think it's disgraceful that he used children to advertise that we're gonna remove all these guns. i mean, if you go back to the 1930s with hitler, he did the same thing. >> isn't that--isn't that what we with don't talk a lot about? what were the intentions of our founders and framers? we have stalin, we have hitler countries tyrannical. they talked a lot about that. >> john: that was right wing guy comparing a non-right wing presid

. ♪ >>> joining me at the table now, i have mike peca, sports reporter for npr, tina, team doctor foriants, and ta-nehisi back at the table as well. tina, what do we know now about the ricks of a career playing football and getting -- sustaining repeated head trauma? >> we know that football is a sport which lends itself to trauma, unfortunately, so we know we have to proceed with a lot of caution with these players who are so vulnerable to the effects of trauma. we know head trauma can cause concussion and we know concussion is a alteration in mental status which ka cause neurological symptoms and psychiatric symptoms as well. >> one of the things that i think is hard for us to track is when did we start to know this? how -- what is the time frame in which the risks have become clear and established by the literature, and where is the literature headed in terms of just what level of injury is acceptable risk? >> one is the short-term effects of concussion, which is concerning and the other is becoming increasingly present in today's world is the long-term effects of concussion and th

. >> bill: only four late term abortions according to npr who did a story on this operating in the country right now. andrew cuomo practicing catholic by the way. governor of new york, wants to expand this pretty much allow abortions in the third trimester for any health reason at all. >> and broughtenning the medical officials based on reason that you said. becoming very difficult to find -- >> in new york state can't be held accountable no matter what happens. >> neither the doctor or the woman. >> bill: even if the reason is found to be bogus you are notally charged might lose medical license. >> could be even a nurse practitioner. >> it's in the senate health committee right now. twice before. it hasn't been voted on. >> all those people in new york state. both republicans and democrats not to vote for this. talking about human lives here. that's what we are talking about here. in the third trimester there is no debate about it it's a human being. all right. now, in pennsylvania, university of pennsylvania professor brutally murders his wife dr. rafael brutally murdered wife. found blo

the ceo of whole foods was speaking to npr about the affordable care act.a big libertarian and he thinks the obama administration is totalitarian because that's what he indicated with the word that he used in the statement. technically speaking its more like fascism, he's talking about obama-care. socialism is where the government owns the mean of production, and in fascism the government doesn't own the means of production, but they do control it, and that's what's happening in our healthcare programs and these reforms. guys, i want to go you, michael shure, what are your thoughts on this? is obama a fascist? >> no, he's not. my favorite was when mackey went on to say, i'm sorry, i didn't mean fascist. some people would associate that with hitler and mussolini, i'm paraphrasing here. what else do you associate it with? it was totally out of line and it made me want to buy processed foot more. >> ana: i love that you mentioned him back peddling a little bit he released people were up set about it. the price of his stock did not drop at all, which i found in

we'll talk about the unemployment numbers and what they mean for the economy with marilyn geewax of npr. >> it's quite true that a people history is the result of how our synthesizing the work of great many other historians. what had happened in the 1960s with the culture was that a whole new generation of young historians had come up and they were in essence reevaluating all aspects of our past. >> martin duberman on c-span two. like us on facebook. >> they put us in a field. i don't know someone took a shot and seems like shots were fired. i went down and i think there were something like 96 tanks and each one would fire into the group. anyone that was moaning, they shot. just put it simply, the 150 were made captive and about 84 of them were shot down by ssr forces that captured them. the survivors including ted played dead in the field after they were massed, they are fired on by machine guns in close range from the distance from myself at the podium to you sitting in the audience. machine guns were fired at these men. they didn't run. >> december 17th, 1944 and american convoy trav

the national rifle association, of course, opposed the buy back and told npr that it will work with thete legislature to re-write the law in order to make it illegal to destroy firearms in buy-backs. and one republican state senator even held his own gun buy-back on the same day as steve k. instead of destroying the guns, he and other gun rights advocates added them to their collections. just days after, he wrote this. the arizona republican party is an idealogical outliar, i see nothing showing that it is inclined to move anything but further away from the values of this community. i will, therefore, be changing my party register to democrat. joining me now, the rather than turned democrat, tucson city councilman steve k. thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much for invitation, appreciate it. >> steve, i have seen politicians at different times change party. it is a rare occurrence. and in my experience, it is usually an accumulation of issues. it tends not to be a single issue. was it this single issue for you . >> no, if you follow the legislature, it has been one thing after

he looks the american people in the eye or talks to their ears on npr and said his budget has specificroposals that would put us in a position to pay for our spending and invest in the future. and reduce our deficit. then he went on to say on february 15 at the budget committee hearing -- quote -- "-- i think this was my question, was this accurate statement that you made, mr. mr. onchltd m.b. director. he said "it's an accurate statement that our current spending will not increase the debt. we've stopped spending money we don't have." i mean i almost can't read those words without the hair standing up on the back of my neck. the director of the office of management and budget appeared before the united states senate budget committee and he said it's an accurate statement, this, baloney, is an accurate statement that our current spending will not be increasing the debt, we've stopped spending money we don't have. nothing could be further -- the lowest single deficit was $600 billion. what about on a different cnn interview on february 14, -- quote -- "it, the budget, takes real actions

susan rice made her statements to the american people and the world, libyan president mugariff said on npr, "the idea that the criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that it just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous. we firmly believe that this was a precalculated, preplanned attack that was carried out specifically to attack the united states consulate." as we now know from everything i have read at least, the libyan president told the truth. contrast that with the statement by ambassador rice to the united nations. it forces one to wonder whether libya's intelligence but that much better than america's on september 16 or whether libyan leaders were that much more willing to be can dit or avoid misstatement misstatements. secretary clinton what evidence was there that was so compelling it caused the white house through ambassador susan rice to make the representations about spontaneous protest, anti-muslim videos and the like, despite evidence and statements of libya's own president to the contrary? she makes the statement on affirmative act on her par

. >> i went online and i found some sound from npr of a woman who was battling cancer, and i'd like toat now. >> i wanted to badly to have a family one day, but saving my eggs came with a steep price tag. the doctors told me to look to fertile hope. it's a program from lance armstrong's livestrong foundation. within 48 hours livestrong had agreed to pay for most of the $25,000 it would cost to freeze my eggs. >> and this was recorded after it had become clear that he had cheated, and basically this woman said, you know, that's wrong, but he helped me personally, and i think if you look at this on balance, you have to say that lance armstrong has done more good in the world than harm, and so i don't think you can totally separate that from how we look at lance armstrong. yes, the victories were gained in a totally wrong, immoral way and he is bearing the consequences of that now, but it doesn't change the fact that millions of people's lives were changed for the better because of him. i don't think that we should totally forget that. >> he also ruined a lot of people's lives. >> and his

ambassador susan rice made her statements to american people in the world, the libyan president said on npr, quote, the idea that this criminal and cowardly act was a spontaneous protest that it just spun out of control, is completely unfounded and preposterous. we fermly believe that this was a free pre-calculated, preplanned attack carried out specifically to attack the united states consulate, end quote. as we now know, from everything i have read at least, the libyan president told the truth. contrast that with the statements by ambassador rice to the united nations. it forces one to wonder whether libya's intelligence was that much better than america's on september 16 or whether libyan leaders were that much more willing to be candid or to avoid misstatements. secretary clinton, what evidence was there that was so compeling that it caused the white house through ambassador susan rice to make these representations about spon stains you protests, anti-muslim videos and the like, despite evidence and statements of libya's own president ott con tear. -- contrary? statements an affirmative

. >> or we're going to have to raise taxes on everyone, as npr ran the numbers.u raise the numbers on 8% of the middle class, you raise more money than by taxes millionaires. >> there the question is how do you define the beginning and middle of the middle class. is it $75,000 or $110,000 a year? some places around the country, people consider like in the city of san francisco, where i live pretty close to san francisco, people say, well, middle class is probably $120 to $140,000 a year. we're going to have to do that kind of calculations, make those kinds of judgments, because undoubtedly, people do not want to cut the military as drastically as even chuck hagel may want to cut it. we are not going to want to cut medicare and social security, and we're not going to want to cut education and roads and bridges. >> very, very quick final point because we have to leave it there. >> this is exactly what we have been saying on the wall street journal editorial board for the last six months. you can't get the money you need to fund all these programs by just taxing the

her expertise landed her a contributing gig with this american life on npr and "the new york times" andperiences in the new book "drinking with men, a memoir." welcome. >> thank you. it's great to be here. >> you almost make a feminist argument that women don't go to bars alone to drink alone. they don't become regulars because of this double standard in society and i think you are right. i don't go to bars alone. i don't drink anywhere regularly. but is that really a bad thing? why are you trying to push women in to bars? >> because i think they'll meet really great people and make lifelong friends in bars and find a great community in a neighborhood bar. i'm not saying go to a fancy hotel bar, go to, you know, a luxurious cocktail bar. once in a while i love doing those things but i think your corner bar, the neighborhood bar can just be a really surprising source of comfort and stability and an anchor in a person's life. >> yeah. i mean, i guess the key is finding a place and becoming a regular there. i was having a conversation with a few female friends of mine and they hate going t