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Source: WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"
Roundup
7-4-08

HNN's Rick Shenkman on 'Diane Rehm Show' [audio 52min]

Diane Rehm welcomes history professor Rick Shenkman, editor and founder of George Mason University's History News Network, and Boston Globe columnist Maggie Jackson to discuss whether our increasingly mobile, multi-tasking and virtual world may be eroding our willingness and ability to grapple with complex issues, and what this trend could mean for the strength of our democracy. Shenkman is an investigative reporter and author of Just How Stupid Are We? Facing the Truth About the American Voter (Basic Books). Jackson is author of a new book entitled Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (Prometheus Books).
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"