Before Jon Stewart there was The Onion. We’ll talk with writers for the satirical news site about their brand of fake-news humor.

ACORN under fire. Conservatives have attacked the liberal organizing group for years — now, ACORN’s in real trouble. We’ll take stock of the ACORN scandal.

Walter Cronkite defined the role of the TV news anchorman and won America’s trust. We look at Cronkite and television news, then and now.

The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

On Point and Planet Money, together at last! We talk with NPR’s Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum about what they’ve learned covering the economic crisis, and where it’s going.

In today’s first hour, James Fallows noted that the Chinese government is avoiding any mention of the 20th anniversary, on June 4, of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The event is effectively being erased from collective memory.

The Department of Homeland Security circulates a controversial report to law enforcement on the rise of extremist groups — and Secretary Napolitano apologizes.

More newspapers bite the dust. Will a million bloggers save, maybe even improve, the news? Or not?

Susie Orbach wrote “Fat Is a Feminist Issue.” We listen to what she’s saying now on bodies and beauty.

This just in: Television viewing is at an all-time high. And we’re doing it in more ways than ever. We’ll ask why and where, and what’s next for TV.

Web-only editions? Mexican billionaires? Charity? What, if anything, can save American newspapers as they scramble to transform – or die?

We’ll ask The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, The New Yorker’s Nicholas Lemann, and Daily Beast chief Tina Brown.

We listen back to American radio’s earliest days — Herbert Hoover, FDR, Amos ‘n’ Andy, and the radio revolution.

From the athletes, to media coverage, to China’s image, we’ll take stock of what we’ve seen in Beijing.

Americans are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan, but you almost never see the casualties in American newspapers. We’ll hear the debate over censorship and battlefield images.

The Australian Rupert Murdoch, global press baron, plays hardball and big money with the news media on several continents. These days, he’s up to his elbows in American media.
If you read The Wall Street Journal, which he now owns, you’ve seen the changes. Whether you watch or avoid Fox News, you know its impact. And [...]

It’s a hot new TV show about young Americans straining to launch their lives in an uncertain time. And it’s not premiering on TV. The new show, called “Quarterlife,” will premier this fall on the Web. The Internet. Not on the big screen in the family room, but the little ones, all over.
TV and television-style [...]

For millions of Americans in love with a little fictional corner of Minnesota, Saturday night is Prairie Home Companion night, and Garrison Keillor is the man who keeps the lamplight burning.
An old-fashioned master of storytelling and the radio review, who plucks at mystic chords of memory until Powdermilk Biscuits and the Chatterbox Cafe pop out. [...]