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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Those who grew up in the era of Richard Nixon knew a time when "The Kingdom" took an especially frightening aura of power and glory. One speaking t...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:39
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
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Alex Stolis has been a janitor, a counselor, a waiter, a bartender, a housekeeper, a salesman, a cook, a criminal, and has been, and a never was. T...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The peculiar thing about the News is that very often events of senseless tragedy and despair are juxtaposed with News of hope and compassion. Some...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:17

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 13:06
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From Archie Bunker to Murphy Brown, TV characters have been getting trapped in elevators, freezers and all other manner of small spaces for decades...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We wade into emotionally shallow waters when we look at the media's recent coverage of the important consequences of the Penn State revelation tha...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2011
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Global Voices Podcast
The Global Voices Podcast 1. Tune in for a discussion about the Gay Girl in Damascus hoax; listen to sounds from Guinea Bissau; and talk to Firuzeh...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 26:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A woman prays at Shwedagon Pagoda in the centre of Yangon, Myanmar., Credit: Christopher Davy
With the release of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in November 2010, Becky Palmstrom reflects on her time spent working for a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Today we witnessed the worst kind of media discrimination.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:33
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do you believe what they say about you on the Internet?

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 01:46
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The more popular the email, the more likely it is to be bogus

  • Added: Mar 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Last night there was a football game on television instead of the evening news.

  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: :52
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Simple storytelling has become complicated.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2009
  • Length: 01:43
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There ain't nothing on television

  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Radio commentators sometimes receive threatening letters.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 01:55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
American adults demand quality entertaiment on television

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: :41
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The headline said "City to Debate Animals."

  • Added: Jan 30, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Facebook vies with email to control your life

  • Added: Jan 26, 2009
  • Length: 01:22
Caption: Arthur Miller with panelists, Credit: Jonathan Guyer
A panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between ...

Bought by KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, KUT-HD, KCUR, KWGS and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2008
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6
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Budding reporter learns a lesson in "reporting."

  • Added: May 09, 2008
  • Length: 04:15
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TPMtv: Unfit to Serve

  • Added: Mar 19, 2008
  • Length: 07:03
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Filmmakers Katie Galloway and Po Kutchins talk about making their documentary film "Prisontown, USA"

  • Added: Sep 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:57