Politics Feb 04 The Doubleheader: David Brooks Responds to Reddit Questions We run a tight ship here in public media land, but nevertheless Mark Shields was late to the party Friday. He missed the bus or boat or whatever, but New York Times columnist David Brooks fielded questions by himself…
Politics Jan 28 The Doubleheader With Shields and Brooks: Egypt, SOTU and Reddit We're back. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCgN00F_JY] It's 2011, and we're bringing our brand of political flavor to new audiences around the globe. Unfortunately tonight, many of our Doubleheader devotees in Egypt will not be seeing our work. President Obama called for Egypt…
Science Jan 28 One Year Later, Strong Sales for iPad As New Competitors Eye Market While Steve Jobs' decision to take medical leave from Apple marked a shakeup in its leadership, it's clear that his company is still in good shape. That's evidenced as we mark one year since the introduction of the iPad…
Nation Jan 27 Experimenting with the State of the Union and HTML5 Part of the reason people join the PBS NewsHour for news events like the State of the Union is because we give you the primary source without too much clutter. There are no NFL-style dancing robots with whiz-bang sound effects.
Politics Dec 17 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Tax Cuts, UConn Basketball Streak In this edition of The Doubleheader, we talk a bit about the grand compromise struck during the lame-duck session of Congress to extend tax cuts enacted under President Bush plus unemployment benefits. We also explore possible reasons why the…
Politics Dec 16 Border Patrol Agent’s Death in Arizona Rekindles Immigration Issue With the midterm campaign season in the rear-view mirror and issue ads fading from memory, the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Southern Arizona this week shone a new light on the illegal immigrant traffic across…
Politics Nov 12 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Taxes, Palin and Cowboys Coaching In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, topic No. 1 was the expiring Bush-era tax cuts and what will happen during the lame-duck session of Congress. Both predicted that the cuts…
Politics Nov 05 Shields and Brooks on Obama Overseas, Olbermann, October Classics In the sport of politics and the politics of sport, as we say, we talk in this week's Doubleheader about President Obama's trip to Asia and whether it can be effective spurring job growth considering how central issue was…
Politics Oct 22 The Doubleheader: Shields, Brooks on Anita Hill’s Voicemail and NFL Tackling Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the newsroom for yet another edition of The Doubleheader. We talked about Anita Hill and the latest developments in a saga that began, oh so many…
Politics Oct 08 The Doubleheader: Bewitching Ads, Perfect Games, Political Hoop Dreams The sport of politics and the politics of sport is what we are all about in our Friday night check-ins with Mark Shields and David Brooks. On this webisode of The Doubleheader we start the conversation with the new advertisements…