Book TV Schedule: March 12th - 14th

[Viva_La_Revolution]

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C-SPAN2's Book TV: March 12-14
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Insightful author interviews
Saturday 10 PM, Sunday 6 PM and 9 PM,
Monday 12 AM ET
In How We Missed the Story, Roy Gutman looks into why the US media and government failed to realize the threat posed by the Taliban in Afghanistan and the groups like Al Qaeda that it harbored. Mr. Gutman discusses his book with Moisés Naím, editor of Foreign Policy magazine.


Weekend Highlights
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Grover Norquist, Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
In his talk, Grover Norqiust traces what he considers the essential issues that keep the Republican party unified and why the Democratic party is inherently fractious. He argues that Republicans and conservatives are the "Leave Us Alone" coalition. Mr. Norquist discusses his book at Americans for Tax Reform in Washington, DC. Following the event, a reception marking the publication was held at Smith and Wollensky.
(Saturday 11 PM, Sunday 8 AM and 7PM ET)

Erika Falk, Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Erika Falk says the media has demonstrated gender bias in covering women candidates since the first woman ran for president of the United States in 1872. She examines the campaigns of eight women who have run for president through 2004 and compares them with the campaigns of their male opponents. This event was hosted by the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
(Saturday 7 PM, Sunday 1 PM ET)

Douglas Feith, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2001 to 2005, provides an insider's look at the Bush administration's planning for the invasion of Iraq.
(Saturday 5:30 PM, Sunday 3:30 PM and 11:30 PM ET)



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Program times are approximate. All times are Eastern Time (ET).

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Saturday, April 12, 2008

8:00 AM 46 min Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Author: Diane MacEachern

8:45 AM 11 min 2008 CPAC: Jerome Corsi, "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada"
Author: Jerome Corsi

9:00 AM 2 hr, 57 min In Depth: Michael Eric Dyson

12:00 PM 30 min History
The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur - Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary
Author: Nancy Kriplen

12:30 PM 49 min What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815 - 2007 Pulitzer Prize for History
Author: Daniel Walker Howe

1:15 PM 4 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Kimberly Lyons
Author: Kimberly Lyons

1:20 PM 8 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Michael Briggs
Author: Michael Briggs

1:30 PM 57 min History
The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus
Author: Joshua Kendall

2:30 PM 1 hr, 36 min History
African American National Biography
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

4:00 PM 1 hr, 24 min The Independent Journalism of I. F. Stone
Author: Myra McPherson et al.

5:30 PM 31 min Politics
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Author: Douglas Feith

6:00 PM 57 min Encore Booknotes: When Hollywood Had A King
Author: Connie Bruck

7:00 PM 52 min Politics
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Author: Erika Falk

7:50 PM 7 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Janet Francendese
Author: Janet Francendese

8:00 PM 1 hr, 13 min EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World
Author: Mark Skousen

9:15 PM 45 min History
Jason Emerson, "The Madness of Mary Lincoln"
Author: Jason Emerson

10:00 PM 57 min After Words: Roy Gutman, "How We Missed the Story" interviewed by Moisés Naím

11:00 PM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Author: Grover Norquist


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Sunday, April 13, 2008

12:30 AM 46 min Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Author: Diane MacEachern

1:15 AM 1 hr, 9 min History
Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
Author: William Link

2:20 AM 6 min Book TV Bus - Alton Keith Gilbert "A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John Sidney McCain, Pacific Carrier Commander"
Author: Alton Keith Gilbert

2:30 AM 58 min Politics
Basic Brown: My Life and Our Times
Author: Willie Brown

3:30 AM 1 hr, 16 min Politics
Taking the Hill: From Philly to Baghdad to the United States Congress
Author: Patrick Murphy

4:45 AM 57 min Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail
Author: Paul Polak

5:40 AM 13 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Elizabeth Sifton
Author: Elizabeth Sifton

6:00 AM 51 min God in the White House: A History - How Faith Shaped the Presidency from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush
Author: Randall Balmer

6:45 AM 1 hr, 13 min The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Author: Richard Thompson Ford

8:00 AM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Author: Grover Norquist

9:30 AM 1 hr, 24 min Chance or Purpose: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith
Author: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

11:00 AM 46 min Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Author: Diane MacEachern

11:45 AM 13 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Elizabeth Sifton
Author: Elizabeth Sifton

12:00 PM 57 min After Words: Dee Dee Myers author of "Why Women Should Rule The World" interviewed by Dana Perino, White House Press Secretary

1:00 PM 52 min Politics
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Author: Erika Falk

1:50 PM 7 min 2008 Organization of American Historians: Eric Foner
Author: Eric Foner

2:00 PM 1 hr, 24 min Chance or Purpose: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith
Author: Christoph Cardinal Schönborn

3:30 PM 31 min Politics
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Author: Douglas Feith

4:00 PM 1 hr, 16 min Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Author: Cynthia Cooper

5:15 PM 13 min 2008 CPAC: Dinesh D'Souza: "What's So Great About Christianity"
Author: Dinesh D'Souza

5:30 PM 33 min Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics
Author: Eleanor Clift

6:00 PM 57 min After Words: Roy Gutman, "How We Missed the Story" interviewed by Moisés Naím

7:00 PM 1 hr, 29 min Politics
Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government's Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Author: Grover Norquist

8:30 PM 33 min Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics
Author: Eleanor Clift

9:00 PM 57 min After Words: Roy Gutman, "How We Missed the Story" interviewed by Moisés Naím

10:00 PM 1 hr, 24 min The Independent Journalism of I. F. Stone
Author: Myra McPherson et al.

11:30 PM 31 min Politics
War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
Author: Douglas Feith


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Monday, April 14, 2008

12:00 AM 57 min After Words: Roy Gutman, "How We Missed the Story" interviewed by Moisés Naím

1:00 AM 43 min History
Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam
Author: Pope Brock

1:45 AM 1 hr, 12 min Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
Author: Michio Kaku

3:00 AM 46 min Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World
Author: Diane MacEachern

3:45 AM 13 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Risa Goluboff, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights"
Author: Risa Goluboff

4:00 AM 45 min I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Author: Trevor Paglen

4:45 AM 1 hr, 13 min EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists Is Transforming the World
Author: Mark Skousen

6:00 AM 1 hr, 16 min Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower
Author: Cynthia Cooper

7:15 AM 33 min Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics
Author: Eleanor Clift

7:45 AM 10 min 2008 Virginia Festival of the Book - Jonah Lehrer, "Proust Was a Neuroscientist"
Author: Jonah Lehrer


http://www.booktv.org/schedule.aspx

[Kurovski]

1. K&R.

Hi, night-owl! :loveya:

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. I forgot it was friday

:blush:

:loveya:

[EFerrari]

2. Kick

[Kurovski]

3. Kick. (nt)

[Bozita]

4. K&R

Way too much Norquist and Feith.

[Kurovski]

6. Kick. (nt)

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Kick!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Kick!!

:hi: :hug: :loveya: :pals:

[Bozita]

9. kick

[Hidden Stillness]

10. "Women for President," Erika Falk (Johns Hopkins)

This is a study of the media coverage, which would mean male media coverage, of the Presidential races of every woman who ran, since the first one, Victoria Woodhull, 1872, to the present. The book went to print during the early part of the current campaign, so I don't know how much of it was studied, but according to the results that were so clearly gotten, it hardly matters.

From the earliest races, during the Victorian 1800s, to recent times, and the candidacy of Shirley Chisholm, the Representative from New York, who ran during 1972 and got so much feminist support, to the present, there have been standard treatments of women by media, based on stereotyping and trivializing, that have changed so little, so shockingly little, that there was actually no "trend-line" at all, but a totally constant, non-varying posture. Never has the women received anywhere near the coverage that the comparable (according to most similar vote totals) male candidate got, never were the woman's issues discussed at anywhere near the rate the male candidate's issues were discussed by media, even when the study showed that the advertising women candidates themselves put on were much more issue-oriented--male candidates received 68% more issue coverage by media. Wmone candidates received much more trivializing, demeaning "fashion," "how the candidate looks/was dressed" coverage than males, although the typical excuse that "women's clothes/hairstyles,etc. are more interesting to cover" fell flat, as the coverage itself was so bland and non-descript, that it could not have been the reason. Women, over and over again, were described as "emotional," "incompetant to lead/be Commander-in-Chief," "breaking down," etc., or if they did not show emotion, as then "cold/calculating," "ice queen," with real quotes used for all of these. Their titles or achievments were diminished or not referred to at all, and a questioner at this program brought up the fact, again, that they refer to Sen. Clinton as "Hillary," as if they have a right, and as a way of demeaning the women, which was also a constant pattern for male media treatment of women candidates.

Every single women who ran, was always treated as a strange novelty, and every single one of them was referred to as "the first," no matter how annoyingly that had to be stretched, to make it true. "The first black woman Senator" to run for President, as Carole Moseley Braun was called when she ran, 2004. This always keeps the bigoted framework in mind, that women are "different," "we don't know what they are," "this is not their arena," and they are minimalized. This is a typical pattern for all women: the male media always refers to them as "firsts," even when they are clearly not, just to forever shut them out, and make them feel shut out. This shows that no matter how many generations go by, males never accept us as having earned and deserving of these positions of power. The media coverage always claimed that the woman candidate is "not viable," "cannot win," "only survives because of the support of women," even though studies actually show that when women run in large numbers, they win as often as males, as evidenced by the large number of women Governors, women in Congress, numbers increasing, etc. The coverage still minimalized them as if they were a "small offshoot special-interest group," and the male as "representing all of the American people," even when they clearly do not and do not have the support of women.

Women never received the basic amount of coverage that the male media gave to the male candidate, even when the woman was the front-runner of the two. As a comparison from the early part of the current race, when Clinton was the front-runner, Obama still received 59% of the front-page coverage to Clinton's 36%. There was also a tone of sneering anger at her "arrogance" at thinking she was the front-runner, when she was, when this tone had never been taken to describe the front-runner Kerry, 2004, or anyone else. Suddenly popped up this time, though.

This study focused on newspaper coverage, easier to objectify for quantified categories and easier to take a long-range analysis of, but the question of the hysterically sneering hatred of Hillary Clinton from cable and other male TV and radio coverage, which became such a frightning spectacle this time around and which was actually the same attitudes as always but expressed with so much more (unopposed) venom, will have to be a separate study. The numbers of quotes given, for every stupid attitude and claim against women, and the fact that there was no dimunition at all over the centuries but that it is the same as it was at the beginning, was shocking to the author and shocking to the audience. Things did not "get better" or "lessen" over time, and as anyone who has gotten completely fed up with the male media because of the hypocrisy and bigotry of this campaign, I can tell you, I woke up as I have not woken up since the 1970s. This is an issue for the coming era as much as anything else in the world, and it is being completely censored and lied about.

[Bozita]

11. "The Independent Journalism of I. F. Stone" is on now

Now THAT'S a journalist.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

12. I haven't had one danged minute all weekend to watch anything!

Thank you guys, for keeping the thread kicked.
I love you all
:loveya: