Xeni guest-co-hosting "On The Media" radio show this week

Xeni Jardin 11:40 am Fri Feb 3, 2006

I'll be co-hosting WNYC's "On The Media" this week with Bob Garfield (the show's managing editor and co-host Brooke Gladstone is on assignment in Israel). Audio will be available later today, and the program airs nationwide at various times over the weekend (Link to list of NPR member stations that carry OTM).

This week's edition of the show includes a number of items I think BoingBoing readers will dig. Among them:

* Joseph Braude joins us for an interview about his piece in this month's The New Republic on internet growth in Iran, and the boom in Persian language blogs around the world. Stanford researchers say Farsi is now the third most common language for blogs (Link, thanks Paul).

* On the eve of Tuesday's State of The Union address, Slate political correspondent John Dickerson talks with us about his recent Slate piece which traces the history of this annual media spectacle.

* Why are there so many car chases in LA, and why do we love watching them on TV? Tad Friend took a look at that for the New Yorker, and he told us about some wacky moments in the back of police cars going 100+mph on LA freeways, in the course of researching that story.

Link to On The Media home, archived audio online later today.

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