Virtually Speaking

Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people. Tonight she talks with Nicole Sandler.

Prof. Jay Rosen, teaches journalism and directs the Studio 20 program at NYU, critiques the press and studies new media. And he 'mindcasts' on Twitter.  In this rare and sill timely Sunday special, Rosen and Stuart Zechman talk about the ideology of the press, the brand that is David Broder and Third Way Democratic constructs about social safety net programs.They begin from Prof. Jay Rosen's PressThink post "Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: On the Actual Ideology of the American Press" ( http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html ), and Stuart's response in commentary ( http://archive.pressthink.org/2010/06/14/ideology_press.html#comment53936 ).In hour 2, Jay Ackroyd and Stuart Zechman reflect and comment further.Edited March 31, 2013

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature and political realities of liberalism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

Economist Warren Mosler joins Jay... Can Taxes and Bonds Finance Government Spending? Modern Monetary Theory says no. Co-Author 'Understanding Modern Money.' Author 'The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy.' Download pdf at http://moslereconomics.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/warren-mosler

Recorded earlier. VSSunday: Maple Syrup Edition - @OurManinAbiko on #quakebook and Dr Dawg on the Canadian General Election and the contempt charges brought against the Govt for withholding information from Parliament.

Tonight: Libya with writer, student, poet, musician, and political activist Rafael Noboa y Rivera. Read his "Dispelling some myths about US involvement in Libya: it isn’t humanitarian and it isn’t about democracy, either"

Dan Ellsberg discusses Wilileaks, the role of whistleblowers, and their endangered future. 8pm eastern - Maple Syrup Edition - @OurManinAbiko on #quakebook and Dr Dawg on the Canadian General Election and the contempt charges brought against the Govt for withholding information from Parliament.

Liberalism and Libya. When is it right to intervene?

9pm eastern: Evolutionary biologist and author of the science blog Pharyngula, PZ Myers and Jay discuss the role of empiricism and reality in modern society. And zebrafish genomes

Cosmic Log's Alan Boyle and Space Studies Institute's Robin Snelson explore the often-volatile landscape of science, politics and policy. This week's guest: George Djorgovski: Professor of Astronomy; Co-Director of the Center for Advanced Computing Research at Caltech; Director of the Meta-Institute for Computational Astrophysics; a founder of the Virtual Observatory concept; and one-time Chair of the US Nat'l Virtual Observatory Science Definition Team. His e-Scientific interests include definition and development of the universal methodology, tools, and frameworks for data-intensive and computationally-enabled science. His astrophysical interests include digital sky surveys, exploration of observable parameter spaces, formation and early evolution of quasars, galaxies, and other cosmic structures.

PageOne blogger Mike Rogers talks with Susie Madrak about closeted Republicans and why he outed them. A recovering journalist and class warrior, Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.

Virtually Speaking Sundays - Culture of Truth|Avedon Carol discuss the events of the week; how they are covered or not, but the mainstream media.

Ongoing discussion centering on the nature and political realities of liberalism. No call-ins: recorded the previous Thursday.

UC_Berkeley Professor of Economics Brad DeLong discusses questions of macroeconomic policy, and the role of the freshwater economists, and the media, in setting it. File edited 12/20/2012 to correct audio problems. Links: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/something-everything-rotten-in-the-state-of-macro/ http://adviceunasked.blogspot.com/2011/03/saltwater-freshwater-and-economic.html

Unfolding stories in Wisconsin with Athenae and Scout Prime. Recovering journalist and class warrior Susie Madrak explores the impact of current events on the daily lives of working class people.