This week on The Daily Show

[T Roosevelt]

Barkley's always interesting...

Monday, 1/30: Randy Jackson, "American Idol"

Tuesday, 1/31: Charles Barkley, basketball player

Wednesday, 2/1: Michael Beschloss, historian

Thursday, 2/2: Robert O'Harrow, Jr., writer, Washington Post

[Up2Late]

1. Robert O'Harrow, Jr. is an excellent writer, the rest sound rather lame.

Robert O'Harrow, Jr.has done some great Radio Documentary's for PRI/American Radio Works and I think he sometime works for Frontline.

"...O'Harrow explores how the government is teaming up with private companies to collect massive amounts of data on citizens and how, he writes, "More than ever before, the details about our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe...." <http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/10/1545230>


In the 1990s, the data industry mushroomed. Vast computer systems quietly gathered staggering amounts of personal information about virtually every American adult, mostly for business and marketing purposes. After the 9/11 attacks, national security officials reached out to data companies for help in finding potential terrorists. Now, there may be No Place to Hide.

<http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/noplacetohide/>

[Up2Late]

2. kick n/t

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