Jim Lehrer

How 'Occupy Portland' Made History This Week

Jim Sleeper | Posted 01.14.2012

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Good leaders and clear agendas must, indeed, emerge, but the best things that Portlanders did on Saturday night were that a) they found the courage to turn out in great numbers and b) they refused to be baited.

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'PBS NewsHour' Struggles Through Staff Changes

nytimes.com | ELIZABETH JENSEN | Posted 01.07.2012

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It's never good when a news organization loses its political editor just a year before a presidential election. But in the next two weeks, "The PBS Ne...

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Jim Lehrer: My Debate Moderating Days Are Over

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 12.31.2011

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NEW YORK — Jim Lehrer says keep the presidential debates coming, just don't ask him to moderate any more. The veteran PBS anchor, now in semi-r...

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What Effect Will More Corporate Ads and Interrupted Programming Really Have on PBS?

Pearl Korn | Posted 08.07.2011

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At PBS's recent annual gathering it was announced that the number and frequency of promotions for corporate sponsors would increase during a few noted programs as an experiment.

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Preemptive War and Other Nonsense

Robert Schwab | Posted 07.19.2011

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Has former President George W. Bush's preemptive war doctrine been repealed or rescinded? The New York Times editorialized earlier this week against ...

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Jim Lehrer Stepping Down As 'Newshour' Anchor

AP | David Bauder | Posted 07.12.2011

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NEW YORK — Jim Lehrer has been delivering the news each weeknight to PBS viewers since the Gerald Ford administration. Now he says it's time to step...

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Karzai, Iran, the US, and Bags of Cash

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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At a press conference, Karzai acknowledged that his government was getting similar bags of cash from the United States -- which White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied.

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Friday Talking Points [130] -- Who Is This "They" Obama Speaks Of?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since we took last week off to write something patriotic for Independence Day weekend, we've got two weeks to cover today. Fortunately, every other w...

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Charlie Rose Meet Dr. Z

Jordan Dey | Posted 05.25.2011

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With Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington now officially confirmed for May, the time is ripe for the American public to meet the other ...

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Tales From the Census Trail: Lara's Bit

Lara Janson | Posted 05.25.2011

In this day and age, why is 'Negro' included as a race on the 2010 Census form? I hope to explore this and many more issues as my training as a Census Bureau Crew Leader begins.

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Thoughts on Haiti, And the Spirit of Activism in Film

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Great activist movies portray the ongoing struggle between the welfare of working people and larger societal forces, seemingly beyond their control, that threaten their integrity, livelihood, and often, their very survival.

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Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.

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Jim Lehrer's Name To Be Removed From PBS Newshour Program

Posted 05.25.2011

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For the first time since 1976, Jim Lehrer's name will not appear in the title of PBS's newscast. Beginning December 7, "The Newshour with Jim Lehrer"...

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Reaction to President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is Another "Teaching Moment"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Are we incapable of recognizing the simple fact that it is much better for America to have a president who is admired and respected in the world than one who is despised and feared?

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How Popular Culture Empowers The Joe Wilsons Of This World

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wilson is one of those mediocre, small men who have always occupied the fringes of influence but would never have imagined to insult a sitting President in bygone days.

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O'Reilly, Beck, Olbermann and Maddow: Venomous Snakes?

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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No one wants to watch normal, well-adjusted, happy, rational, reasonable people on TV; they're boring -- like C-SPAN or the News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS.

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The Prisoners' Professor

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Richard Shelton's first interest in a prisoner's poetry was born from curiosity rather than charity. In 1970, a convicted murderer named Charles Schm...

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David Letterman Apology Redux: Shame on Dave for Buckling Under to Palin's Lies

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Will Letterman now start to censor himself with his writers and, worse, when he interacts with his guests? All it takes is another person to mislead the media and public as Palin has shamelessly done.

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PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" Getting 21st Century Makeover

New York Times | Elizabeth Jensen | Posted 05.25.2011

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"The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," public broadcasting's nightly newscast, is getting a makeover, designed to bring it more fully into the digital era, g...

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The Posse is Not Currently Available

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

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So we have a lawless world and the president can do what he wants to do (didn't we just see how that turns out?) and somehow that is standing up for the rule of law.

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Jim Lehrer: Journalism is Still About the Story

Al Eisele | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Lehrer has two words of advice for mainstream journalists who worry that they're headed for extinction in the brave new world of the Internet. The words are "Calm down."

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Post-Election: Call it Decompression

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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He did the strangest thing last night: He turned the TV off. There he was, still in the early part of the evening, with another hour or two of pol...

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"Video Your Vote" On PBS And YouTube

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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if you spot (and record on video) something unusual at your polling place, you will have an easy way of uploading it to a place where journalists will have immediate access.

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Winning the Next Presidential Debate

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most people think they're in a way higher income bracket than they are.

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Debate #1: The Knockout that Wasn't. What Obama Needs to Do Next Time.

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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There was no knockout. And a knockout was what Obama needed. At best, it was a tie. And as the underdog in many ways, Obama needed to do much more than simply hold his own.

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