THE FOURTH ESTATE

Program 04-10-24-A

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To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh made his name when he broke the story of the My Lai Massacre. Looking back you have to wonder: why did Lt. William Calley tell Hersh he'd killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians? In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge Hersh says "because I asked him."

SEGMENT 1:

Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai massacre story during the Vietnam War and he was among the first to document the extent of the abuses and the cover-up at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Hersh tells Steve Paulson how he got those stories and how he functions as an investigative reporter and outsider. Hersh is the author of "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib." Also, columnist Maureen Dowd tells Jim Fleming that a lot of people still don't understand that a columnist is supposed to have a point of view. She writes for the New York Times Op-Ed page and her columns have been collected in a book called "Bushworld."

SEGMENT 2:

Jennifer Cohen flew off to Russia to be a journalist and live with the man of her dreams. Things didn't quite work out the way she planned. She tells the whole story in a memoir called "Lying Together." Here, she tells Anne Strainchamps what it was like living in Russia in the late 90s, and what happened when she realized her boyfriend was an alcoholic who was still drinking.

SEGMENT 3:

Bill Moyers has won 9 Peabody Awards and 30 Emmys, and now hosts a show on PBS. He's also put together a collection of essays called "Moyers on America." His particular niche is exploring big ideas on television, as he did in his memorable series with myth-maker Joseph Campbell. Here, Moyers talks with Steve Paulson about covering the world of ideas and how to make it compelling television.

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Books:

• Jennifer Cohen, Lying Together (Wisconsin)
• Maureen Dowd, Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk (Putnam)
  
• Seymour Hersh, Chain of Command: the Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (HarperCollins)
  
• Bill Moyers, Moyers on America (New Press)

Music:

• After Hersh:
  Drums & Tuba w/ "The 10 Attacks of Dagger"
  on "Vinyl Killer"
  Righteous Babe Records
• After Dowd:
  Mambotur w/ "Salpica"
  on Putumayo Presents Euro Lounge
  Putumayo World Music
• After Cohen:
  Gare de Nord w/ "How Was It For You?"
  on Putumayo Presents Euro Lounge

• After Moyers:
  James Taylor Quarter w/ "Music To Watch Girls By"
  on Lounge-a-Palooza
  Hollywood Records
  

Distribution dates:

week of 10/09/2005 - hour 1 week of 10/24/2004 - hour 1

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