Brooke and Brian Lehrer Interview Each Other

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week, we’re sharing a chat Brooke had with her longtime colleague Brian Lehrer for Interview Magazine. Brian hosts his inimitably thoughtful daily talk show for WNYC, where he rallies a community of callers and experts to talk about the issues they care about most. But you may not know that Brian was once the first ever host of this very show. In this conversation, Brooke and Brian discuss how they made their ways into public radio, parasocial relationships, and the difference between accuracy and objectivity. This conversation appears in full on Interview Magazine's website, with the headline "Brian Lehrer Points the Mic at Brooke Gladstone."

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0:00.0	This is on the Media's midweek podcast and this week for your
0:05.8	delectation, I hope, a conversation with my longtime WNYC colleague Brian Lehrer
0:12.0	for Interview Magazine. For those outside the New York area, although he has countless
0:17.5	listeners elsewhere too, Brian hosts one of the best live news and calling shows
0:23.1	ever. The Brian Lehrer show has held a huge and diverse community together and
0:28.4	kept it talking after 9-11. The big blackout, Superstorm Sandy, the death of Eric
0:34.3	Garner, the Trump presidency, you name it. Every day he offers two hours of
0:40.3	principled and contextualized conversation about news both local and global with
0:46.3	the people who make it and the listeners who have to live with the consequences.
0:50.5	Brian is a local hero. It so happens he was also the previous host of on the
0:56.6	media and this chat we share how we came to do what we do. This conversation
1:02.9	appears in full on Interview Magazine's website with the headline Brian Lehrer
1:08.3	points the mic at Brook Gladstone. Who starts Brian? Who starts when you have two
1:17.9	interviewers in the same interview both of our impulses would be to start,
1:23.4	right? To serve rather than receive. So would you like the honor? No you go ahead
1:33.1	you're a better life. Alright so I'll reach back into a little bit of
1:39.6	Brook history. You were working for NPR as their first ever full-time media
1:48.6	correspondent that much I know. Prior to that I had been an editor for most of my
1:54.2	time at NPR and then for three years the Moscow correspondent. That was the
1:59.9	mid-90s right and for some reason at that point or maybe I should say only at
2:05.4	that point did NPR decide to establish a position of a full-time media
2:10.3	correspondent. What was going on at that time that triggered that? Well I was in
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