Patt Morrison Weds, 9/24

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

1-3 p.m.

 

1:00 – 1:20

Paulson and Bernanke in 'Da House (of Representatives)

Now it’s the House of Representatives’ turn to have a whack at the Fed Chairman and the Treasury Secretary. The Bush administration’s two top financial figures are back for another day of asking congress to greenlight their $700 billion bailout – but Congress is saying, not … so … fast. We take a look at how it all went down this [Weds] morning.

 

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1:20 – 2:00

Considering the Alternatives: What are the Options Around a $700 Billion Bailout?

As opposition mounts to the Treasury Department’s $700 billion behemoth of a banking bailout package the ideas for alternatives are starting to fly fast and furiously around the halls of Congress and beyond.  Sen. Chuck Schumer asked why so much money needed to be injected into the mortgage and credit markets in one fall swoop—why not give a $150 billion down-payment and see how homeowners and banks responded?  Instead of merely handing over massive sums of cash to the private financial firms that got us into this mess in the first place, why not make the government the primary share-holders in these companies, propping them up and allowing them to fix their mistakes?  While holes are being shot through the original plan, it’s time to examine the alternatives.

 

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[NPR NEWS]

 

 

2:00 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

 

2:30 – 3:00

Is There a Future For Music Criticism?

The explosion of personal music blogs and easy file sharing, coupled with declining revenues for many print publications, has made the prominence of music critics look increasingly tenuous. When anyone can write about music and what it means to them, and hearing new artists is as easy as clicking a mouse, are readers still going to pay attention to what critics have to say? At the same time, music journalism is thriving on Internet sites like Stereogum and Pitchfork, and with new genres of music appearing every year, someone's got to help sort it all out. Is music criticism dying or being reborn?

 

Guests:

Ann Powers, pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times and 2008 Resident of The Popular Music Project at the Annenberg/Norman Lear Center

IN STUDIO

 

Robert Christgau, music critic for NPR’s All Things Considered, formerly with Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, Consumer’s Guide, and Blender.

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Ann Powers leads a discussion titled “Death Of the Critic? A Roundtable On the Future of Music Criticism In the Digital Age” tonight at 7:30pm  in USC’s Annenberg Building, room 207; RSVP to enter@usc.edu.