Broadcasting and Streaming Rules; Age Appropriate Teaching of Difficult Subjects to Kids; Women in the Military
Broadcasting and Streaming Rules
Broadcast outlets and online companies are challenging a recent ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board that would significantly affect the business of offering music over the Internet. The ruling would increase the amount of royalties paid by online broadcasters, and make them track the number of songs listened to online and the amount of individuals who are listening to those songs. Larry and guest Kurt Hanson, online radio broadcaster and publisher of the Radio and Internet News Letter, discuss the possible effects of this ruling for online broadcasters.
Age Appropriate Teaching of Difficult Subjects to Kids
Two local charter school teachers lost their jobs recently over a presentation their seventh grade students planned to give during a Black History Month assembly. Administrators at Celerity Nascent Charter School in southwest Los Angeles forbade students from reciting a poem about the civil rights icon Emmet Till, who was beaten to death in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman. The charter school's founder and Executive Director Vielka McFarlane joins Larry Mantle to discuss the incident and to examine the issue of finding appropriate ways of teaching difficult historical lessons to school-age children.
Women in the Military
Over 160,000 women are currently serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a result, the number of women soldiers killed or injured, mentally or physically, from military service is higher than ever before. Larry Mantle talks with Lory Manning of the Women's Research and Education Institute, General Janis Karpinski, author of One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story (Miramax Books), and Calli Wight, counselor in the women's healthcare center for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, about the experiences of American women in war today, and the challenges they face.