Patt Morrison for Monday, February 23rd

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, February 23, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

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1:06 – 1:30

OPEN

 

 

1:30 - 1:39

The Dover Test

President Obama announced recently that he is considering lifting the ban on photographs at Dover Air Force Base, in place since the Gulf War in 1991.  Republican and Democratic administrations have since upheld the ban, but both have made exceptions.  For example, President Clinton allowed the Pentagon to distribute pictures of coffins bearing the remains of military personnel killed in the bombing of the destroyer Cole.  Images of casualties have long played into the politics of war, most notably in Vietnam.  What would this policy reversal mean for Obama?  Is it respectful to photograph the coffins of fallen soldiers?  And what impact might this have on public morale?

 

RECONFIRM DAY OF

Guest:

Robert Lichter, director of the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University

CALL HIM

 

1:41 – 1:58:30

The Dover Test

Cont'd

 

2:06 – 2:19

Brazen Violence: Ciudad Juarez under Siege

The goals and tactics of drugs gangs in Mexico’s largest border city have become so amazingly brazen that they’re starting to constitute a genuine national security threat to the U.S.  The police chief of Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million people nudging right up against the Mexico-Texas border, resigned on Friday after the fifth police office was killed in a week—the murderers had been placing signs on the dead officers promising to kill at least one local official for every 48 hours until the chief quit.  Is the Mexican government powerless to stop the violence, and should U.S. authorities get involved?

 

Guests:

TBD

 

2:21 – 2:30

OPEN

 

 

2:30 – 2:39

The Women and Frank Lloyd Wright

Author T.C. Boyle is here with his new book, The Women, an account of iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright as told through the four women who loved him: the mother of his six children, a client's wife, a morphine addict, and an exotic dancer and student of the Russian mystic Gurdjieff.

 

Guests:

T.C. Boyle, author of The Women, in addition to World's End and Drop City

IN STUDIO

 

PATT: T.C. Boyle will be talking about and signing copies of his book tonight, Monday, February 23, at 7:30pm at SKYLIGHT BOOKS (1818 N Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA  90027) and Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm at the SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRARY (601 Santa Monica Blvd Santa Monica, CA  90401)

 

 

[BREAK]

 

 

2:41 – 2:58:30

The Women and Frank Lloyd Wright, CONT.

 

 

 

 

 

Jonathan Serviss

Producer, Patt Morrison Program

KPCC 89.3 FM / Southern California Public Radio

NPR Affiliate for Los Angeles

626.585.7821

jserviss@kpcc.org / jserviss@scpr.org

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