I wrote to PRI (but was not able to post on their webpage, they are even more chickenshit than NPR):
When I saw this in my email: "The Takeaway: News of the World, No Longer" momentarily I thought it meant The Takeaway was being cancelled. The warm, fuzzy feeling soon faded when I realized you were talking about somebody else. Murdoch could have saved himself a lot of problems by following NPR and PRI's lead; just forget about "reporting" entirely, and just interview other journalists, and pass along government propaganda as if it had something to do with the truth. Bad Rupert! No sushi!
From: The Takeaway <feedback@thetakeaway.org>
Date: Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:46 PM
Subject: The Takeaway: News of the World, No Longer
To: mattlove1@gmail.com
Tomorrow on The Takeaway
Sometimes the big news is the news itself.
After mounting pressure in the wake of a earth-shaking scandal in Britain involving reporters hacking the cell phones of murder and terrorism victims, News Corp. tabloid News of the World is closing. It's a historic development in the world of print media, and a huge change for the publication's employees. What's next? We'll learn more from News Corp. expert and author Sarah Ellison, and speak with someone whose phone may have been targeted by the tabloid.
Another crisis still faces a different sort of corporation. The American government sits on the brink of debt default. Today, President Obama had a "constructive" meeting with top lawmakers to try and hash out a deal. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? We'll check in with The Takeaway's Todd Zwillich to get to the brass tax.
While U.S. politicians struggle with a dearth of cash, Africa grapples with a deadly lack of water. International aid groups are appealing for help in the worst drought in 60 years that may threaten the lives of millions. It could be the biggest world news story you aren't hearing about, and we'll learn more with the help from Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times as well as reporters from our partners at the BBC.
Also in the show, we'll continue our summer music series with Jim James of the band My Morning Jacket, finish off our "My America" series with actor John Turturro, and talk about this weekend's movie releases.
These topics and more tomorrow, on The Takeaway.
—Ben Johnson
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http://eventful.com/performers/matt-love-/P0-001-000156481-4/demands
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