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Then and Now: Russian-American relations, and foreign correspondence

November 29, 2024 by

Marvin Kalb, author, professor and a legend in broadcasting, talks with Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell III about the early 1960s, when he was Moscow correspondent for CBS News, and the confrontation between Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader, and President John F. Kennedy. It was “a different Russia,” also the title of his new book, than the Putin-era one — in which Putin, unlike Khrushchev, regularly turns his back on the West. Kalb also talks about the peril to democracies of disappearing foreign correspondents.

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The Billionaires Will Rule Down Through the Generations

The Billionaires Will Rule Down Through the Generations

Llewellyn King

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book “Careless People” takes aim at Facebook (parent company Meta) and tells a tale of its potentate, Mark Zuckerberg, as a man who is sought after by the great and the powerful and who lacks social consciousness or real interest in anything beyond himself and his company. Wynn-Williams is the New Zealander who […]

‘Whacking the Cut’: A Different View of the BBC Crisis

‘Whacking the Cut’: A Different View of the BBC Crisis

Llewellyn King

The BBC has fallen on its sword. The director general has resigned and so has the head of news over the splicing of tape of President Donald Trump’s rambling speech on Jan. 6, 2021, which preceded the sacking of the Capitol. The editor and the technician who did the deed for the esteemed BBC program […]

It Isn’t the Stress That Gets To Air Traffic Controllers

It Isn’t the Stress That Gets To Air Traffic Controllers

Llewellyn King

If you don’t know about the stress air traffic controllers are reportedly under, then maybe you are an air traffic controller. The fact is that air traffic controllers love what they do — love it and wouldn’t do anything else. The stress comes with long hours, Federal Aviation Administration bureaucracy and a general lack of […]

Can AI Clean Its Own House? There Are Signs It Can

Can AI Clean Its Own House? There Are Signs It Can

Llewellyn King

For me, the big news isn’t the politics of the moment, the deliberations before the Supreme Court or even the news of the battlefront in Ukraine. No, it is a rather modest, careful announcement by Anthropic, the developer of the Claude suite of chatbots. Anthropic, almost sotto voce, announced it had detected introspection in their […]

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