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Bestselling author, journalist, and historian, Eric Alterman, joins us for an exciting conversation discussing his book, Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse. Eric is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. From 1995-2020, he was The Nation's “Liberal Media" columnist and is now a contributing writer to the magazine and also to The American Prospect, where he writes the weekly “Altercation” newsletter. He has been named a Media Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a Schusterman Foundation Fellow at Brandeis University, a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and a member of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Alterman is the author of the national bestseller What Liberal Media? The Truth About Bias and the News, as well eleven other books, including We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel, to be published in November, 2022 by Basic Books. He is also the winner of the George Orwell Prize, the Stephen Crane Literary Award and the Mirror Award for media criticism (twice). He holds a Ph.D in US history from Stanford minoring in Jewish Studies, an M.A. in international relations at Yale and a B.A. from Cornell. He lives in Manhattan and tweets at @eric_alterman and has an open Facebook Page.
This week Caroline is joined by New York Times best-selling author Nancy Jo Sales, who joins us to discuss about her new latest book Nothing Personal which is an open, honest tell-all about digital dating and Nancy's relationship with the apps. Caroline and Nancy sit down to talk and laugh about the importance of loving yourself (which is a key point in Nancy's book) and dating these days in the digital age. Nancy Jo Sales is the New York Times bestselling author of American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers and The Bling Ring: How a Gang of Fame-Obsessed Teens Ripped Off Hollywood and Shocked the World. She is also the director, producer, and writer of the documentary film, Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age. A longtime writer for Vanity Fair, her work has also appeared in New York, The Guardian. Awards to her name include; 2010 Mirror Award, 2011 Front Page Award, and a 2015 Silurian Award. Insta: @nancyjosales Purchase Nancy's latest book Nothing Personal at link on her bio, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, IndieBound & HachetteBooks. Visit dnd.MYFITNESSPAL.com and use code dnd to get a one-month premium membership for FREE. Produced by Dear Media
We discussed a number of things including: 1. Psychology and worldview of computer programmers 2. Beneficial ways technology has affected our cognition 3. How tech is helping and hurting society 4. Technology and the election I'm a computer geek from way back. I got interested in them as a child in the early 80s in Toronto, when machines like the Commodore 64 arrived. My parents wouldn't get our family a computer (my mother worried I'd just “sit around playing games all the time”), but I devoured every book of BASIC programming I could find at the library, and whenever I could cadge some time on a computer at school or a friend's house, I'd try to do some programming. I created little games, databases, primitive chatbots, digital music, and gradually realized that computers were going to change everything. In high school, though, I decided I wanted to be a journalist. I studied English and political science at the University of Toronto, and after graduating in 1992 I worked as a street musician, a receptionist for a driving school, a bookkeeper, and an administrative cog for the League of Canadian Poets (the country's most awesomely-named literary organization) — before deciding to become a freelance magazine writer. This was around the time the Internet hit the mainstream, so I began writing long pieces about how it was changing politics, shopping, art, culture, and everything in between. In the late 90s I moved to New York and began writing for magazines including the New York Times Magazine, Wired, Fast Company, New York, Mother Jones and Smithsonian. My work has won several awards, including an Overseas Press Council Award, a Mirror Award, and in 2002/2003 I was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. My most recent books include Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, and Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better. In my spare time I write, record, and perform music in the band The Delorean Sisters.
Clive Thompson is the author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, a longtime contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired. Today, Thompson is one of the most prominent technology writers--respected for keeping his distance from Silicon Valley hype and doing deeply-reported, long-form magazine stories that get beyond headlines and harness the insights of science, literature, history and philosophy. In addition to the New York Times Magazine and Wired, he's a columnist for Smithsonian Magazine, writing about the history of technology, and writes features for Mother Jones. His journalism has won many awards -- including an Overseas Press Council Award and a Mirror Award -- and he's a former Knight Science Journalism Fellow. In his spare time he's also a recording and performing artist with the country/bluegrass band The Delorean Sisters. Connect with Clive Thompson: https://www.clivethompson.net/ https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/ Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07P1DVV2L/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0 Connect with Nick Holderbaum: Health Coaching: https://www.primalosophy.com/ Nick Holderbaum's Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods (T): @primalosophy (IG): @primalosophy iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-primalosophy-podcast/id1462578947 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A
Devin Friedman is the Executive Creative Director at Wealthsimple. Previously he was the Editorial Director of GQ where he did super important stuff like directing editorial. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, among others. His writing has been anthologized in The Best American Crime Writing and The Best American Travel Writing and he has been a finalist for several National Magazine Awards as well as the Mirror Award for media writing. He has sold scripted TV shows to HBO, AMC and WGN. Visit journal.kyoapp.com for full show notes Take our daily reflection app KYŌ for a spin Music: Clouds - Joakim Karud https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O13PpAoVdI
How I Broke Into: Michael Prywes Interviews Artists and Entrepreneurs About Their Big Break
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a writer who has contributed compelling non-fiction features to major publications such as the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Los Angeles Times, SElf, and so many more. Taffy is also the author of the forthcoming Random House novel, Schrödinger's Marriage. Taffy has been a finalist for multiple awards, including the James Beard Award and the Mirror Award, and has won awards from the New York Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club, Society of Feature Journalists. She also teaches a phenomenal writing class, but the class we discuss in this interview unfortunately sold out before we launched. Subscribe to "How I Broke Into" on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, TuneIn, I Heart Radio, or Google, or listen to the entire podcast here: Notes from the show: John Cheever's short stories Inspired by writer Lauren Slater. "It’s also telling that I’m not a trained journalist. I have a degree in screenwriting from NYU. The highest priority when I’m writing is on storytelling, not voice, but storytelling. That’s my business. Voice comes easily to me because it’s easy for me to write how I sound. And structure is the thing that I think about the most. ‘What is the beginning, middle, and end of this?’ " Loved the soap opera Santa Barbara, and got a job at a Soap Opera publication Worked at Mediabistro in Los Angeles PTSD from giving birth "Moving Swift-ly on? Giggling Tom Hiddleston is spotted bidding farewell to a mystery brunette during evening stroll back in London" - Daily Mail "Chasing the New American Dream" "My Color Story" "Obsessive-compulsive disorder nearly ruined her life" by Sarah Maraniss Vander Schaaff "Who Controls Childbirth?" - Self Magazine "We Have Found the Cure! (Sort Of)" - Outside Magazine Water's Edge (The story of Bill May, the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his improbable quest for Olympic Gold) - ESPN Magazine The Art of War by Steven Pressfield Interviewing celebrities is never not weird. Classes at: taffyakner.com/classes (but August 2017 class is sold out)
I had fun talking to my favorite intellectual, my friend Eric Alterman (who claims that he doesn't believe in God) about his Torah studies and the meaning of life and liberalism. Eric is The Liberal Media columnist for The Nation and the author of ten books, including most recently Inequality and One City: Bill de Blasio and the New York Experiment, Year One), and The Cause: The Fight for American Liberalism from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. I first met him a decade ago after reading his still relevant What Liberal Media? and we soon developed the start of friendship which revolved a lot around talking about the meaning of life but I still learned a lot via the alchemy and formality of doing a podcast with him. Eric is also a music freak who wrote the book Ain't No Sin to be Glad You're Alive: The Promise of Bruce Springsteen and is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, He has also been the winner of the George Orwell Award, the Jack London Literary Prize and the Mirror Award for media criticism, and has been a Hoover Institution Media Fellow at Stanford University.
Sep. 5, 2015. Evan Osnos discusses "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Evan Osnos is a staff writer for The New Yorker and covers foreign affairs and politics. He is also a contributor to "This American Life," "Frontline" and PBS. During his career, Osnos has reported from the Middle East and China and worked as the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune. He has received the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and a Mirror Award. The winner of a National Book Award, his book "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China" shares a view gained by Osnos after eight years of living in Beijing. Informed by the stories of everyday people, the book is a history of China that traces the rise of the individual and raises probing questions about the social clashes between aspiration and authoritarianism. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6916
Mike talks with media expert Matthew Pressman, an Assistant Professor of Journalism at Seton Hall University. Prior to earning his doctorate in history, Dr. Pressman worked for eight years at Vanity Fair, where his articles about the news media won the 2010 Mirror Award for Best Commentary (digital media). He's the author of On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News ( https://www.amazon.com/Press-Liberal-Values-That-Shaped/dp/0674976657/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=on+press+matthew+pressman&qid=1551799438&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull ). Topics Mike & Matt discuss include: * the shift from ‘straight news' to interpretation * the meaning of objectivity in the news * how commercial pressures shape news coverage * the inherent conservative bias of pre-1960s news media * the conservative critique of ‘liberal media' * racism and sexism in newsrooms and news coverage * the rise of the reader-oriented newspaper * the media's response to Donald Trump * if today's media is better than the pre 1960s media *Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible*. If you're interested in supporting the show, go to patreon.com/politicsguys ( https://www.patreon.com/politicsguys ) or politicsguys.com/support ( http://www.politicsguys.com/support ). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy