October 23 – “Was Obama too Relentless on Romney?”; Blurring the Line Between News and Propaganda; The Future of Print Journalism in the Digital Age

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Part 1	We begin with an analysis of last night’s third and final presidential debate from Alan Schroeder, a Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University and author of “Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV”. We discuss the final act in a dramatic see-saw and how much style trumps substance, and whether as Alan Schroeder’s article at CNN suggests “Was Obama too Relentless on Romney?”
Part 2	Then Lisa Graves joins us. She is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy and was formally a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department. We discuss the blurred line between news and propaganda and the post debate spin and analysis, in particular Fox News’s cynical use of a so-called focus group arranged by Frank Luntz that claimed to be former Obama voters who had been swayed into switching to Romney.
Part 3	Then finally, with the recent news that Newsweek is ending its print edition and that Rupert Murdoch is vying to buy the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, we speak with a former senior editor at Newsweek and editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek Stephen Shepard. He is the author of a new book “Deadlines and Disruption: My Turbulent Path from Print to Digital”, and we discuss the changing nature of the news business and the future of print journalism in the digital age.
	MUSIC: The Platters – The Great Pretender; John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth; David Bowie – Changes