WNYE-FM: Digital Age Podcast: Episodes
Gordon Crovitz, former Wall Street Journal publisher, and Steve Brill, founder of Court TV, want consumers to pay for news. But it is already free on the Net. Is the cat out of the bag? Crovitz/Brill have a unique plan to put the toothpaste back in the tube and make $$. Tune in and find out how. ...
Last August, Twitter, the social network site, was the victim of a massive denial of service attack. Who did it? Why is it so easy to learn to become a hacker? Why has Obama delayed appointing a cyber czar when our critical infrastructure is so vulnerable to cyber attack? Don DeBolt, Director of threat ...
Description If newspapers die what difference does it make? Will TV and the Net make up the difference? If we lose newspapers, will we also lose the news? Alex Jones thinks we will. Is he right? Alex Jones is a Pulitzer Prize winner, the author of "Losing the News" and Director of Harvard's ...
Tom Glocer takes in $13 billion as President of Thomson Reuters. He hires smart editors and sells digital information to lawyers, doctors, financial types and newspapers too (Reuters). Can The New York Times adopt the same principal and cut its staff to 60 (sixty) as he suggests (to be provocative)? ...
Frank Gehry has a new building The Beekman going up at the Brooklyn Bridge. He says he can't create this building and others without the aid of a computer. Is he a digital revolutionary? Are his buildings as radical as cathedrals and skyscrapers were in their time? With Jerrilyn Dodds, Distinguished ...
We know Big Brother listens to our phone calls when he gets a warrant. But is he reading our e-mails too? All of them? Without a warrant? Tune in to hear the startling revelations of James Bamford, author of "The Shadow Factory."
Will there be a place for sports on TV? Or will they all be on the Net? Major League Baseball is showing the way. Tune in to find out how. With Robert A. Bowman, President and CEO of MLB Advanced Media LP and Frank Hawkins, Scalar Media Partners.
Obama's Folly? President Obama has allocated a $7 billion stimulus to high-speed internet. Who is going to get the money? The cable companies? The phone companies? Will it do any good or is it a cyber-bridge to nowhere?
Paris Hilton has sex on the Net. A Canadian teenage hockey star appears nude on the Net. A recent survey showed that 20% of teenagers send nude pictures to each other. Does anyone care about privacy anymore? And what about our children? With John Palfrey, co-Author of "Born Digital," co-Director ...
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass, who advised both Presidents Bush, tells Jim Zirin about his fascinating new memoir "War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars," and how his alarms in 2003 fell on deaf ears.
Top Trial Lawyer, Paul Saunders, tells James Zirin of Sidley Austin LLP, how digital evidence has revolutionized the conduct of trials.
Description Walter Cronkite talks to James Goodale about his life as a reporter. Taped 1998.
What to do about lies on the internet? John Seigenthaler, distinguished journalist, a JFK friend, was said on Wikipedia to have plotted JFK's assassination. But Wikipedia has no responsibility for this statement. What do we do about this lie and other lies on the net? With John Palfrey, Co-Author ...
From Viet Nam to 9/11, Veteran NBC/CNN Anchor Garrick Utley has seen it all. Hear him tell Jim Zirin on "Digital Age" how the Internet has preempted the field of television reporting.
Interview with Latin America expert and blogger, Shannon O'Neil as to how she uses her blog, latintelligence.com, to reposition United States foreign policy in Latin America.
Has the GOP lost a generation? Obama won the youth vote 2-1 and by a margin of 7.3 million votes. Has the GOP lost a generation? Will the millennial generation, the first digital generation, change America? with Michael Connery, author "Youth to Power: How Today's Young Voters Are Building Tomorrow's ...
Even Karl Rove says it: Obama won in the trenches. How did he do it? What was Obama's secret weapon. With Mark Sullivan, Co-founder of Voter Activation Network.
With Jonathan Alter, Author of "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days And The Triumph Of Hope."
Obama read this book before he became President.
Obama read this book before he became President.
Blackstone's Steve Schwarzman proposes a single global regulator who will gather economic data from all countries and assess risk via the Internet. Bruce Wasserstein of Lazard pooh-poohs the idea. Hear investment banker Peter Solomon tell Jim Zirin on "Digital Age" what is the right way out of the financial ...
Is the financial crisis a product of a new digital world? Did the speed of digitally connected markets contribute to the debacle? Did senior management understand the complex nature of computer generated derivatives traded by junior traders or is it just a matter of greed and easy credit? With John ...