my guest tonight is co creator of nprs "planet money" it was earth the whole time.se welcome alex blumberg. [cheers and applause] >> stephen: alex, thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. stephen: nice to hear your voice and see your face at the same time. >> yes. stephen: you're co creator of nprs "planet money" co creator of "tee shirt project." >> yes. stephen: not a fan of this project. the global marketplace is someplace we export work to have happen in whatever conditions we want. the products come back to me cheap enough to throw away without thinking about it. that's the invisible hand of the market. why do you want to make the hand of the market visible. >> we're all participating in it if we want to know about it or not. our t shirts. we made a tee shirt. >> stephen: you made a tee shirt for "planet money." it has a squirrel with a martini. why is the squirrel drinking booze on the "planet money" tee shirt. >> it's harder than we thought to come up with a design for a tee shirt. [laughing] >> ya. stephen: okay. okay. >> we wanted to deal with

anyhow, npr finally got the message canceled the commentary. that's the way they worked historically. it started in the soviet union and moved to the united. even after the soviet union expired the play book moved on. they knew how toking a state and propaganda. it works then and it works now. they counted on something in the stage, that is the presuming the guilty-innocence stage which is not as bad as presuming the innocent guilty stage. now -- derived from a particular 1967 episode, which i'm sure some of you have seen. you continue have to stand up. [inaudible] does [inaudible] i'm going let you shout out. if anybody can tell you the guy on trial. the actor who played quite on trial. anybody know this? it was jack nicholson. [laughter] this is in 1967. years later there's a movie for it. jack nicholson is on trial for robbing a gauche i are store. there's 12 people on the jury. the other 11 are convinced that the nicholson character is guilty. he doesn't seem like the guy that robs a gauche i are store. right. at first everyone is angry for

any -- npr has all of the liberal talk show hosts. >> peter byrant. period will make a terrific talk show host. he's engaging. he's delightful. he's engaging and delightful. they don't live their life in place long enough. you are anchored to a studio. when i go on a road, i have to there's a e where studio. in our business, you can't be off of the air longer than a unless i89's the fourth of july. to 1995 when newt gingrich became a speaker. got a call suggesting that -- and what i'm getting at mentioned that npr has all of the liberal talk show hosts. call from -- you can explain it. >> cbs central. was the president of kcet which is -- used to be, no affiliated with pbs. but at the time kcet was the flagship of pbs on the west coast. four of us sitting around doing what we do in c-span. kneltwork shows yammering about the news. i was concerned about the entire system. newt gingrich won and the occurred, you have a conservative, don't you. we need you to do a national show. the have bill maher on all time. and they had on liberals all the time. hour

david folkenflik has been npr's media correspondent since 2004. he previously covered media and politics for the baltimore sun and edited the 2011 book page one, inside the new york times and the future of journalism. he was covered murdoch extensively and has been a protect commentator in the hacking scandal. his new book "murdoch's world. last of the old media empires." good to have you. >> back in my home. >> before we try to answer the questions, did rupert murdoch save journalist -- that's before you try answer the question -- that's why you're here -- >> journalism hash tag. >> you covered the media for ten plus years before npr and baltimore sun, and covering the u.s. media means covering rupert murdoch. rupert murdoch and company did not cooperate in this book project. how far did they go to stop you, if at all? >> nothing rev -- reprehensible, they took a few months and decided not to participate. i asked to speak to're mr. murdoch and his family members members and they said no thanks. that cited a number of proceedings. criminal proceed

these titles were included in npr's guide to 2013's great reads. in "lawrence in arabia," war correspondent scott anderson examines the middle eastern theater during world war i. marie arana recounts the life of simon bolivar who freed six south american countries from spanish rule in "bolivar: american liberator." in "the unwinding: an inner his his -- history of the new america," george packer presents a portrait of the current social and political climate in the united states. pulitzer prize-winning biographer a. scott berg recounts the life and career of woodrow wilson in "wilson." in "hitler's furies: german women in the nazi killing fields," wendy lower, history professor, recalls the roles german women played in the holocaust. neil irwin, economics editor of the washington post wonk blog, reports the leaders of three central

so a recap on the final four games that because of the aegean npr cost money but the senate bill but the guy with the strike chelsea's first leg to begin on separate the eighteenth. it looks like the unsaved bold move has paid off. the singer's new album sold to the coffin million copies in islam or an entity operates unexpected relief. the grammy winning artist surprise that fans and critics within the one to pass that set of studio album on the eighteenth amendment the mom pop music's top performance. capping a year in which the artist has made it unto me saying the singer had taken time out to get back to have built it with her husband jay z. do you know that's the best. and if they did a baby now on the unsaved new self titled album includes collaboration is with jc family of three contestants in penang. i know in the book looks at aberdeen use american singer songwriter brandon myles has been named to all this began by billboard magazine the scenic shot something off just like taylor swift justin timberlake and arianna for the number one spot the hawaiian born artist has establi

wanted to start, i have read a couple of your recent interviews last week, bill and when you were on npr you describe how in the early 60's dallas had become one of the most singular cities on the planet earth. i was just wondering if you could start i explaining what you meant by that? >> sure. i think in the annals of american history and i'm a little biased to speak in such broad terms as we wrote a book about dallas called dallas 1963 but in the years prior to the assassination president kennedy, it seemed like there was no other place like that city certainly in america. but we had were a handful of people, people who lived above the cloud over a very popular people who work in forming the confederacy really have anti-kennedy ferber that had pushed the thinking there in some way to a fanatical fringe and i want to underscore right from the beginning that there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in dallas who either loves president kennedy or at the minimum respected his office. our book is about a handful of people who happen to have access to a microphone

we have a widow who was killed by this man now doing things on npr? that was not a violation but that is the nature of the beast. they finally got the message and canceled the commentary so that is how they work historically that discarding in the soviet union moving to the united states even after it expires the playbook lives on. they know how to agitate and propaganda. agi-prop. but day counted on something in that stage is to presuming the guilty innocence stage. in detail like the andy griffith show but now the rise from a particular 67 episode which some of you have seen. to remember when aunt bee is the juror. do remember the guy on trial? the actor? jack nicholson. 1967 a few years later he would be a movie star but he is on trial for what vinegar's restore 12 people on the jury one was aunt bee the other 11 are convinced the character is guilty but aunt bee pulled out because he does not seem like the kind of guy to rob us store for a first everybody is angry with aunt bee to hang century but it turns out that real steve is captured then of c

. >> one of my colleagues at npr put it well, he was for south afrika george washington and abraham lincoln all rollednto one. that does not make him, as we said, a saint. he was theost crafty ofof politicians. he would use things he needed to. to appeal to his constituencies and fend -- and offend others, on purpose. his central purpose was to make the country work and to include everybody. and that was, you know, in modern times unheard of in this kind of situation. i actually would suggest that some of those years in prison allod him to think through what he was going toto do and to assemble people into one central idea and then keep them on track for that so that in the four years he governed. and the four years prior to that when they established the constitution he was able to really -- i do not think there is anybody, any of us have seen of our age in this century, like this. >> while in prison, mandela studied the language of his oppressors. he studied history. bettttero walk in the other fellow's issues, it makes it easier to negotiate when you do that. >> yes, he did have the time

. >> no, by the time - i worked at npr on the news when i was 19. i worked for the network news, on the afternoon news show "all things considered", when i was 19 and 20 and 21 and going to sledge studying semiotics, which is a pretentious body of french theory but is useful in my daily job, because it's about how narrative works, how to structure a story so it will be compelling and get its oaks into you. semiotics is interested in the questions like what keeps you watching. what keeps you listening to a story on the radio. what is - what keeps you turning the pages in a book. what is the pleasure of it that is moving you forward, that is pulling you in and pulling you forward. you know the feeling at the end of a great story. if a story is working, you know, a great episode of tv, movie, book, like the feeling you get. it's about what is producing that, what is the machinery that produces that. when it doesn't happen, what fails. studying that gave me tools that i used every day this my job. job. >> there's a skill in broadcasting that has to be d

i've been on npr quite a few times.recently -- well, npr has different outlets in different states, and so i've been on a lot of the states. i had never been with perry gross, and i would love to go on this because i like her and the way she interviews. but other than that, i can't -- >> host: i think she had a political, that was kind of a political question she was asking. >> guest: right. right. i do think, yeah, i've been on quite a few npr shows. i can't complain about that. and especially i was on toed show with katie couric, and she was very nice. with the boy book, the war against boys, i had one hostile interview on health care snbc. -- msnbc. they didn't like the idea that boys were this trouble. they were still back in, i don't know, the 1950s thinking that women were an oppressed class, we sparred about that. but i've been on a number of shows, and the hosts are sympathetic to the point of almost going beyond me, they're panicked about what's happening with boys. >> host: christina hoff sommers, vicki jo e-m

gwen eifle moderator of "washington week" and michelle morris is the npr host and special correspondent way up there in new york, rich stingle former managing editor of "time" magazine they have put out a special issue honoring mandela. rick also worked closely with nelson mandela on his biography wrote the book "mandela's way" i want to start with gale king, you came to know nelson mandela quite well. >> i actually did. i have to say that i am forever grateful to oprah for that. oprah and nelson mandela had deep affection for each other. and because he thought so highly of her he welcomed anybody that she introduced him to. my children and i were invited along with oprah to lunch at his house. he used to say, that you have breakfast alone, lunch with your friends and dinner with your enemies. because he believed in order to make peace you had to work with your enemies then your enemies become your partner. we had this fabulous lunch at a big table like this, that my son was sitting here, march mandela, could you please pass the peas, i don't know if i was 'prayed that he called him mr.

with john schwarz of "usa today," lauren sidle of npr. how did you get this case? why did you become his lawyer? >> i got a phone call from mark lemley, law professor at stanford. and he was familiar with aaron and the case. and then aaron -- i got a call from aaron a couple of days later. aaron had other lawyers before me, but i went to new york a few days later. i was actually visiting my mom in new york. and i went to see aaron, and we got together and sat down and talked for several hours. and he's a fascinating guy. then i met his dad a few weeks later. and they had a very good lawyer in boston named marty weinberg. but they decided to make a change and go with me and my firm. >> and there you are, as i said, wading through discovery documents. you feel you got a little late on top of it. you get i think an e-mail from his dad saying aaron had passed away. >> i spent the afternoon reading discovery material, getting very excited about the significance of it in the case and about how we could use it in an upcoming suppression hearing. i'm driving home, having p

npr has received $70 million in grants to improve news coverage and develop digital platforms.g the money from four foundations including the one run by the gates and his wife linda. director james cameron will go to news england -- two new zealand to shoot three sequels to "avatar." ineron shot the first movie new zealand. it has earned 2.8 billion dollars worldwide. >> facebook, walmart, apple, lockheed martin. the names. what do those companies have in common? potentialooking into uses for facial recognition technology. your face good we a huge tool for marketers. megan hughes joins us with more. what is being done to protect our privacy? will this be a reason why sell towants to stephanie? i'm worried about it. >> it's definitely creepy to think about and the white house did instruct the commerce department to take a look at it. the commerce department will be bringing together -- it is a multi-stakeholder process so they will read ringing together the national retailer foundation along with privacy advocates, groups like the aclu. they will have a code of conduct, a volunt

as on -- npr. as an up start, somebody who did not fit the mold as pete said and who was cold calling, the losers of cases in lower courts to see if they wanted to appeal to the supreme court, was a model that really hadn't been used before. i remember interviewing another top advocate of the, before the supreme court and asked him about tommy and he said, well, you know you wouldn't want your heart surgery done by the, by the heart surgeon who called you up and asked if he could do it. >> who was that? >> that was a fellow by the name of john roberts who became a chief justice. i think he is sort of eating his words on that. so i think, tom had the reputation of a real innovator within this stuffy world of the supreme court and he was a good media source. so that when the blog came along i think he was, he and amy were able to over come some initial suspicions because this was a totally unique creature here. it was a blog about an institution by someone who, interacted with that institution as an

i mean i think that the games would be doing the right thing but they're also doing an npr piece from this because nobody really likes them stale there's still this big pot there is a big ask jpmorgan twitter experiment that people are content to do just a month or so ago when they said. turns out to get some questions and a cot ethically troll that they were asking funny question people asking serious questions but the sort of upside and it was that people are still very angry and so i think if they were just it's very common sense thing antique wine made in one year it would july to boost their independence and their spending on these money on advertising mother still lacking behind the scenes when they gifted for their own pr let alone the secretary on each axle each while assisting me in the new you've been wanting to get fifty thousand signatures on this petition and the eur he had forty seven thousand which is amazing that only three thousand year old so my question is for what's next what's the next step. the key to taking green tea and kindness during and in the offseason kore

. >> i do want to point out that we join together with network media all the way down to npr in sensationalizing this $1200 price. it went to $1200 because one or two people bought it for $1200 in a 10 minute period. it has been hovering around the $1000 mark and down to the $700 mark. two months ago, this was trading for less than $200. it has really come up in value. >> we will be watching. thank you. federal prosecutors are accusing a senior microsoft manager and his friends of insider trading. that brought the pair more than $393,000 in profit. the sec and government attorneys are pointing to brian jorgensen, a member of microsoft's corporate finance and investment division. they alleged that he tipped off a friend ahead of company announcements. our editor-at-large, cory johnson, is in new york. what do you make of this, someone inside microsoft participating in insider trading? >> this guy jorgensen was a certified financial analyst, and his job was to analyze likely market impact of coming microsoft announcements. his job was to do sensitivity analysis to figure out what would happen with

aka check out our web site r t dot com slash usa you can also follow me on twitter at npr day that. we tried to tell you which we warned you so the government is not publishing well we have been reporting on this show that they have to buy scheme well because with a one hundred percent guaranteed outcome they crash in the real estate market and people will be underwater negative equity and the banks will need another bailout and the wealth and income disparity will increase yet again. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. stay with substory. because this guy like you would smear about guns instead of working for the people most issues the beach. ritual bridegrooms does your. home. the. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser the despicable human scum jang is dead the uncle of kim was shown no mercy after he allegedly drove the economy into an uncontrollable catastrophe and perpetrated thrice cursed acts of treachery by failing to clap enthusiastically for a supreme leader arranged nephew dear leader kim jong un had also show no mercy no remorse no pity when he had his ex-

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there is no such law in, 70 media companies including twarm, cbs and npr are backing a federal bill that would protect their from the reporters. what do you think of the story? tweet us at aj consider this. or move more at the website at america.al jazeera.com. >> thank you, hermella. who are they targeting and why? i.t. looks like, some surprising economic numbers are straight ahead. and later on, a medical mystery sends an al jazeera america reporter on a search for answers. her very emotional journey ask on the way. many worry that the gains made in education will not stick in the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkabl

>> it was from npr. this is the sort of thing that can happen on any network. >> to say it's not that wig a deal, fine, why did they fire don imus then? >> well, i mean, they're very different -- people of very different -- >> not even awful, nasty things about african-american women at rutgers. >> why did fox news fire glenn beck but not bill o'reilly? >> first of all, fox news didn't fire glenn beck. glenn beck left when his contract expired. i don't think either side necessarily wanted to continue just to be clear on that. but the reason we're bringing up martin bashir again, not that i like to talk about him every week. msnbc made clear they're not going to do anything, but because alec baldwin said hey, how come i'm getting the boot and not this guy? >> we don't know what phil dwrif fin is thinking, why that happened, maybe other things behind the scenes that i don't know about. what i do want to raise that may be controversial is he at least apologized. i think in our society and culture, people ar

there is no such law in, 70 media companies including twarm, cbs and npr are backing a federal bill that would protect their from the reporters. what do you think of the story? tweet us at aj consider this. or move more at the website at america.al jazeera.com. >> thank you, hermella. who are they targeting and why? i.t. looks like, some surprising economic numbers are straight ahead. and later on, a medical mystery sends an al jazeera america reporter on a search for answers. her very emotional journey ask on the way. >> start with one issue ad guests on all sides of the debate. and a host willing to ask the tough questions and you'll get... the inside story ray suarez hosts inside story weekdays at 5pm et / 2pm pt only on al jazeera america i'm phil torres. coming up this week on techknow. it's roll-call for the santa cruz police. their locked, loaded, armed with a computer program that could change everything. >> we found that the model was just incredibly accurate at predicting the times and locations where these crimes were likely to occur. >> alright, where are we going? >> put you

we have the former arts editor for npr. and ben man kowitz joins us. guys glad to have you back as ails. always. some of the biggest movies come at the etched of th end of end . "hunger games" and "catching fire sex. the hobbit didn't do as well as the lord of the rings and you will see the hunger games and catching fire and the hobbit up after iron man iii at the top of the box office of. >> ben holidays are big times when the families go to movies. what are the best choices you can see. >> . >> first of all let me just say to what bill says. i'm not sure anybodiers ar anybt happened at the end of the hobbit. >> bill said you remember what happened at the end of the hobbit n. no tell me what happened at the end of the hobbit. frozen is a wonderful family film. not only can adults tolerate it it could be a date might movie too. it's a sweet story about sisters. >> what about walking with dinosaurs 3-d? that would be the thing i would want to go to if i was ten years old, bill. >> that does look like a nice movie. and frozen could be a sleeper hit as we

i thought with npr -- you agree with me. >> no. >> the president should have the power to order coerced>> what they all want the to know is the miserable media is why you are more conservative than george clooney. >> there are people who say you are biased. you don't like it, that's okay. >> most americans don't want their kids to say f-you, dad. >> people need to be recked. i will use my power to protect .. that. >> not j t me. but we drove it. >> welcome to the no spew zone. i'm spill o'reilly. >> in your daily walking around -- >> i don't walk around. people carry me. >> oh, my god! you're hilarious. >> they do. >> you have fun. you have a great sense of humor. >> a t lot of stuff is stupid and dumb. we mock it and make fun. the people on all have a sense of humor. i sass them. they sass me back. people like it. you do take cheap shots all the time. you defend them. >> i'm like a shot like a b-12. boom. >> i think i will commit suicide. people thought that fight was big. they didn't see you and geraldo. >> that has something to do -- >> yes, it does. >> wrong. >> he should have been

forsenior business editor npr. washington correspondent for the salt lake tribune and the chairman of the national press club board of governors. gabe nelson, washington press correspondent for automotive news. pure chief for the detroit news. general motors about vice president of global communications and public policy. fitzgerald, finance and investigative reporter at the center for public integrity and the chairwoman of the mass -- national press club's speakers group. vice president of business wire and a member of the speakers committee. washington bureau chief for the buffalo news. at mslvice president group. john hughes, treasurer of the national press club. washington correspondent for the dallas morning news. reporter covering the business and international trade for "the washington times." [applause] our guest today rocked the auto world last week when he announced he would step down as chairman and ceo of general motors. racked up tributes. he came to gm in 2010 as the ceo to turn around the biggest of

charlene hunter-gault who worked for npr during nelson mandela's presidency, and from new york, special correspondent tom brokaw. here is tom back in 1990 interviewing nelson mandela after he was released from prison. it's a great photo. the reverend jesse jackson is here, one of the first people to greet mandela after he was released from prison. what a great day that was. we'll talk about it. and he wrote a book entitled "mandela's way." and charles ogletree who marched for mandela's freedom and subsequently met with him several times. welcome to all of you. it's a great privilege to have this conversation. i want to begin in south africa with charlene hunter-gault and have her set the scene with this national period of mourning and reflection and celebration. good morning, charlene. >> reporter: right now, david, it is pouring down rain, and in south africa rain is a sign of good for tutune, so maybe it is honor of mandela. up until this moment, people have been dancing in the streets, they've been singing songs, they've been recalling aspects of nelson mandela's health, and we're ne

npr did an interview with a writer who wrote a biography of putin. she's gay.eft russia two days ago because she's been targeted. she wrote the best biography i read of putin and called it a brilliant snub. using soft power like this is actually the best way to get at putin. i think putin, from what i understand about him, is a man who understands force, understands crushing the opposition, but if you can use a little jujitsu, be a little bit clever and use his moves against him, you're probably making a statement that he doesn't know how to deal with. so that's why maybe what these moves does gains the upper hand for the united states or people who are agreeing with us, these are rules in russia that are unconscionable. >> there are a couple of indications, one that is breaking news this morning, that maybe some of this international scorn is getting to putin a little bit, move he's making. we'll update you and tell you about a few others when we come back. [ male announcer ] here's a question for you: the energy in one gallon of gas is also enough to keep you