Quarterly Programming Report July-Sept 2011 KPCC / KPCV / KUOR Date Key Synopsis Guest/Reporter Duration Unable to reach a collective bargaining agreement with team owners and union leaders, the National Basketball Association has locked out its players as of 9 pm last night. The NBA says that 22 of its 30 teams are unprofitable and the league lost an estimated $300 million last season. But is the NBA trying to solve its financial woes at the expense of the players? Unlike NFL teams who share television revenue equally NBA teams NBA teams negotiate their own 7/1/11 SPOR TV deals individually. Is it timegp to restructure the revenue g sharing? pp Michael McCann 6:00 Today a new set of rules limiting first-year residents, also called interns, to 16-hour shifts was put into place by the private nonprofit Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The rules are meant to prevent medical errors resulting from sleep deprivation. Second- and third-year residents will still be permitted to work 28 hours at a time. But critics of the new rules say they don’t go far enough. They cite research that shows that during long shifts doctors’ performance deteriorates. A 2009 poll of 1,200 American households published in the journal BMC Medicine found that 81 percent of respondents wanted to be informed if their doctor had been working for more than 24 hours and 80 percent said they would they would want a different doctor. Supporters of longer shifts say they give residents valuable experience and teach them to manage fatigue which is an important part of practicing medicine. They say patients are protected because residents are closely supervised. Do you 7/1/11 OPIN agree with these new rules? Or do you think stress and fatigue are an important component ofJohn Nylen 18:00 Independence Day, in case you didn’t know, is a federal holiday intended to commemorate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 and freedom from British rule. But for many of us, it’s just a lovely three-day weekend, full of fireworks, BBQ and beer. Usually, there’s an abundance of patriotic displays as well. But the amount of actual patriotism practiced or felt varies. To some on the left side of the political spectrum, “patriotism” is a bad word. Such critics would never call themselves “patriots,” arguing that many terrible things – big and small – have happened in the name of nationalism. Folks on the right may be more inclined to value devotion to country and related symbols. Of course, there are people of all stripes who consider themselves fiercely patriotic, but who may do or say things that red- white-and-blue-patriots would deem disrespectful or highly unpatriotic. (Think: war protests, criticizing the President, burning the flag.) What about you? Do you consider yourself a patriot? What does that mean? Is it patriotic or unpatriotic to question the government? Does 7/1/11 OPIN the 4th of July add anything to or take anything from your sense of pride in country? Open Phones 30:00 KPCC film critics Andy Klein and Tim Cogshell join Larry to review the week’s new film releases including Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Larry Crowne, Terri, The Perfect Host, Monte Carlo, 35 and Ticking, The First Beautiful Thing, Vincent Wants to Sea and more. TGI- 7/1/11 FILM FilmWeek! Andy Klein, Tim Cogs 34:00 How did Harold Lloyd turn New York and Los Angeles “into his very own romper room?” During the Golden Age of Comedy, Lloyd’s pictures sold more tickets than any other comic actor of his time. In Silent Visions, a new book by John Bengtson, the film historian explores the settings found in Lloyd’s comedy classics and matches them with archival photos and vintage maps to produce an array of now-and-then comparison photographs that illuminate 7/1/11 FILM Lloyd’s genius. John Bengtson 20:00 The conventional wisdom is as old as economic theory itself: raise taxes during a recession or a down economy and you kill the recovery and job creation; lower taxes and jobs are created. The reality on the correlation between tax increases and job creation is much more complicated, as the debate is back on in Washington D.C. between President Obama, who wants to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans to help close the budget deficit, and Congressional Republicans who want to keep current tax rates in place and slash spending instead. In the five years after a $241 billion tax increase under President Bill Clinton in 1993 the U.S. economy went on to create more than 15 million jobs and great at an average annual rate of 3.8%. In the five years after President George W. Bush reduced marginal tax rates in 2001 the economy created 6.5 million jobs and grew at an annual 2.7% pace. History is replete with examples of tax increases doing little or no apparent harm to economic growth, but of course there are so many factors that go into the growth or decline of the American Alan Auerbach, 7/1/11 ECON economy that it’s hard to say with certainty either way. That’s not stopping Republican leaders Pamela Olson 00:30 Over the years, movie theater announcements have evolved from polite requests for verbal silence to firm recommendations for turning off cell phones, but like all rules, they are not always observed or enforced. However, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, a movie chain based in Austin, Texas, recently kicked a customer out of one of their theaters for texting, a behavior prohibited by the theater owners and communicated to the audience with a short video prior to each film. After the customer left a furious message on the company voicemail, Alamo Drafthouse used the irate recording in an advertisement on Youtube, which drew 4.4 million views and attention from many talk shows and websites. The use of a customer’s voice without his or her permission is perfectly legal, so long as the recording is accurate, but the incident raises questions about the potential impact of what we say or do publicly. Is it important to observe a certain etiquette with cell phones in movie theaters and other places? And do people feel entitled to talk or text on their cell phones, wherever they feel like it? Put Tim League, Patrick 7/1/11 TECH down that phone and weigh in! Corcoran 00:22 In 2001, amidst public outrage at decades of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and repeated promises by the clergy to catch offenders, a young priest named Father Fernando Lopez Lopez joined the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Four years later Lopez Lopez was convicted of multiple accounts of lewd acts with a child, and one of sexual battery, having admitted to molesting three teenage boys during his time at the St. Thomas the Apostle church in Koreatown. He had been hired smoothly by the L.A. parish, but refused employment and duties earlier that year by a monsignor in the San Bernardino diocese, who had discovered Lopez Lopez’s past. It turned out that the young priest had been asked to leave his former position at a parish in Italy, on allegations of homosexual involvement with youths and drug activity. None of this information, however, was dug up by the L.A. Archdiocese. The excitement surrounding the case died down after the priest served a prison sentence and was deported to his native Columbia. But now, one of the abuse victims is suing L.A. Archdiocese 7/1/11 YOUT Cardinal Roger Mahoney for exposing him to harm by hiring Lopez Lopez. The trial will begin inDan Rather 00:13 A ban on plastic bags goes into effect throughout unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County today. Paper bags will still be available for 10 cents-a-bag, but county supervisors hope the ban encourages shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. Meanwhile, over in Austin, Texas, a grocery store called in.gredients is going several steps further. They’re aiming to be the first zero-waste, package-free supermarket in the nation. That means shoppers will have to think ahead and bring their own containers for grains, seasonal produce, spices, meat, beer, wine and cleaning materials. What does an aisle in a grocery store without packages look like and would you shop there? Patt talks with the in.gredients 7/1/11 ENV cofounder and his revolutionary or old-school idea, depending on how you look at it. Christian Lane 00:17 Mark Halperin is a mostly mild mannered political editor at TIME magazine and a contributor to MSNBC—far from an ideological bomb thrower, the epithet that he muttered on the MSBNC show “Morning Joe” was all the more shocking. Characterizing President Obama’s demeanor during his press conference on Wednesday, Halperin said “I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday.” The hosts joked about it in the moment but executives at MSNBC were not pleased and later that day Halperin was suspended. He would issue a formal apology to both the network and President Obama but he remained suspended indefinitely. Brazen language during political discussions isn’t anything new, even former Vice President Dick Cheney didn’t hesitate to let loose with a curse word on the floor of Congress while in the midst of a debate with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy. But is the office of the president more sacred, giving pause to using crude descriptions while criticizing the president? Would it have made a difference if, instead of using the phallic curse word, Halperin has called Obama 7/1/11 POLI an “insufferable jerk?” Same general message, different choice of words—does it matter? HowMarc Cooper 00:17 Did the program have an impact --or even pose the right ideas -- about how to improve 7/1/11 HEAL nutrition in L.A.