October 7 – Turkey and Syria “Not Far” From War; The Paucity of Presidential Debates; “The Good Girls Revolt”

Full Program

Part 1

Part 2

Then we get an assessment of the role of journalism in the presidential debates following the first exchange between Romney and Obama where the big questions hovering over the campaign about Mitt Romney’s taxes and his attitude toward the 47% were not discussed. The founder and director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Tom Rosenstiel joins us to discuss how the American people and our democracy are not being served by these staged and circumscribed events.

Part 3

Then finally we speak with Lynn Povich about how she and a group of the “good girls” at Newsweek during the era of “Mad Men” and male chauvinism, revolted against being secretaries and researchers and sued their bosses and changed journalism. Lynn Povich is the author of a new book “The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace”.