NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with Bob Garfield, co-host of the NPR program "On the Media," about the controversial role of exit-polling in election-night media coverage.
Jennifer Ludden helps edit energy and environment stories for NPR's National Desk, working with NPR staffers and a team of public radio reporters across the country. They track the shift to clean energy, state and federal policy moves, and how people and communities are coping with the mounting impacts of climate change.
On the Media Co-Host Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer, and inveterate broadcaster. In print, Garfield's "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in Advertising Age has made him among the more pitifully groveled-before figures in trade-magazine history.
With Medicaid cutbacks on the horizon, millions in the U.S. are expected to go uninsured. In the Mississippi Delta region — one of the poorest places in the U.S. — people are stressed and mad.
Composer in Residence of the Hawai`i Symphony Orchestra joined Classical Pacific host Sharene Taba in a game of Stone, Parchment, Wand....a rock paper scissors Harry Potter Style. Hear about the HSOʻs Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this weekend- the live symphony orchestra performing the score while the film plays on the big screen! myhso.orgMichael-Thomas Foumaiʻs list:5. Double Trouble (The Prisoner of Azkaban)4. Aunt Marge’s Waltz (The Prisoner of Azkaban)3. Inferi in the Firestorm (The Half-Blood Prince)2. Lily’s Theme (The Deathly Hallows Part 1) 1. Hedwig’s Theme (The Sorcerer’s Stone)Sharene Tabaʻs list:5. Polyjuice Potion (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)4. Diagon Alley (Harry Potter and the Sorcererʻs Stone) 3. "In Noctem" (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)2,1, forever and ever... "Fluffyʻs Harp" (Harry Potter and the Sorcererʻs Stone)