RE: Patt Morrison for Monday, March 12, 2012

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Monday, March 12, 2012

1-3 p.m.

 

CALL-IN @ 866-893-5722, 866-893-KPCC; OR JOIN THE CONVERSATION ONLINE ON THE PATT MORRISON BLOG AT KPCC-DOT-ORG

 

1:06 –1:30 OPEN

 

1:30 – 1:58:30

Bogus cliffhangers on TV news

They’re on television screens all the time, banners for “breaking news!” and “this just in!” Especially during this election season, TV news cliffhangers have taken on an accelerated tone, with minute-by-minute shout-outs and graphics detailing incremental moments with exclamation points and exclamatory language. With hours of waiting for election results for Super Tuesday, cable and primetime news outlets detailed every “exclusive!” they could, while the seconds ticked on. During the last presidential election, in 2008, “The Daily Show” funny man Jon Stewart joked about eight commentators talking at once on-screen on CNBC as an “octobox.” Hyped-up TV news headlines are regularly used during coverage of storms and natural disasters, plus other events. Do TV news cliffhangers work when you can go look them up online yourself, or do they just annoy you?

 

Guests:

Marty Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, focusing on  entertainment’s social, political, economic and cultural impact on the world.

 

UNCONFIRMED

CNN, MSNBC, CNBC guest

 

2:06 – 2:39 OPEN

 

2:41:30 – 2:58:30

The man in the golden mask:

He’s both the ultimate ancient world celebrity and a modern cultural icon.  But who was the man known as the “boy king?”  How have the myths surrounding his tomb – including the infamous “curse of Tutankhamen” – obscured the truth about this fabled ruler?  In her new book, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley peels back the layers of mystery that have enshrouded Tutankhamen ever since the discovery of his tomb, by archaeologist Howard Carter, in 1922.  And what a discovery it was -- the first near-complete royal burial to be unearthed in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings; nearly intact rooms filled with golden possessions for Tutankhamen’s journey to the underworld, his mummified body nestled at the center.  The news sparked a worldwide outbreak of Egyptomania that influenced design, architecture, film and literature for years to come.  Tyldesley writes about the discovery and its aftermath, researched through journal entries, reports and newspaper articles, then digs deeper to reveal the surprising truth of Tutankhamen’s life and legacy.

 

Guests:

Joyce Tyldesley, archaeologist, Egyptologist and author of “Tutankhamen: The Search for an Egyptian King” (Basic Books).  Her previous books include “Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt” (Basic Books, 2008).  She is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester and Honorary Research Fellow at Liverpool University.