12:23am

Fri April 27, 2012
Politics

Today on Your Call: Friday Media Roundtable

On today’s  Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll have a conversation about coverage of anti-choice legislation and ACORN style attacks on Planned Parenthood clinics across the country. We’ll also talk about the presidential elections in France. We’ll be joined by France 24’s Armen Georgian, RH Reality Check's Jodi Jacobson, and the Huffington Post’s Laura Bassett. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What grabbed your attention in the media this week? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

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11:52pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Money & Politics

FCC To Vote On Putting TV's Campaign Ad Data Online

Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 4:24 am

Government regulators take up a rule with wide political implications Friday. The Federal Communications Commission is expected to vote on a proposal requiring TV stations to post online information about the campaign ads they air.

Stations are already compelled to keep those records in public files. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski says it's time to make that information available on the Internet. But TV stations are resisting.

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11:50pm

Thu April 26, 2012
StoryCorps

Brain Injury Gives Man A Second Chance To Be Kind

Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 4:24 am

Credit StoryCorps

Four years ago, Marco Ferreira was riding his motorcycle down an isolated road in Los Angeles when he hit some grout and had an accident.

Though he was wearing a full helmet, leather pants and jacket, Ferreira suffered a traumatic brain injury.

When he woke from a six-week coma, his wife, Wendy Tucker, was there.

"You didn't walk, you didn't talk, and you couldn't feed yourself for seven months," she says during a visit with the 48-year-old Ferreira to StoryCorps in San Francisco. "Since then, it's just been getting better all the time."

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11:49pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Planet Money

When Should A Country Abandon Its Own Money?

Originally published on Mon May 7, 2012 9:16 am

Credit Jesse Garrison / Flickr

Iceland is a tiny nation in a big financial mess. It's still recovering from the aftermath of the 2008 global economic crisis, which caused a domestic banking collapse.

Its currency, the krona, is also in really bad shape. That's led Icelanders to pose an existential currency question: Should they abandon the krona?

One key problem is size. Iceland has about as many people as Staten Island, so there just aren't that many people on the planet who need to use the krona.

"There are more people using Disney dollars," says Arsaell Valfells, an Icelandic economist.

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11:48pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Around the Nation

Can Helmets Cut Tornado Deaths? CDC Isn't So Sure

Originally published on Fri May 4, 2012 5:04 pm

11:46pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Shots - Health Blog

Wanted: Mavericks And Missionaries To Solve Mississippi's M.D. Shortage

Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 2:19 pm

Credit Jeffrey Hess for NPR

When Janie Guice looks at the Mississippi Delta she sees a vast, flat flood plain home to cotton fields and catfish farms. She also sees desperate rural health problems and a deep shortage of doctors to offer care. Her job: to find doctors to fill that void.

"Who is the one that is going to go back and live in a community that maybe doesn't even have a Wal-Mart? And yes, there are a lot of communities in Mississippi that don't have a Wal-Mart yet!" Guice laments.

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11:44pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Education

Teaching The LA Riots At Two City Schools

Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 7:22 pm

Credit Paul Sakuma / AP

It has been 20 years since four police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King, and L.A. erupted in race-fueled riots. Many in Los Angeles, including students who weren't born when the riots hit in April 1992, are reflecting on those days of anger, looting and destruction, asking why it happened and how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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11:42pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Europe

Showdown Looms Over Europe's Largest Shantytown

Originally published on Fri April 27, 2012 7:24 pm

Europe's largest illegal settlement lies on the edge of Madrid. As the Spanish capital has grown, the city's limits have moved ever closer to the shantytown known as Cañada Real, a sprawling tangle of tents and cement houses. And as the economy has tanked, a growing number of people are calling it home.

Now the city is eyeing the property for possible development.

The roads in Cañada Real are unpaved. Houses are made of corrugated metal or cement. Some lots are just piles of garbage.

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5:09pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Crosscurrents

Crosscurrents: April 26, 2012

An update on the San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi case, a poem in your pocket, a community dance ritual, a new film about the San Francisco adult film industry, and bald eagles.

4:56pm

Thu April 26, 2012
Arts & Culture

"Cherry" and the other side of the San Francisco porn industry

Credit Photo courtesy of http://therumpus.net/cherry/

Generally, pornography isn’t something that comes up in casual conversation. It’s a taboo topic for obvious reasons – but local author Stephen Elliott says this means people know very little about the people who work in that industry, and often consider them victims or bad people. In his twenties, Elliott was a stripper in his hometown, Chicago, and he's part of the sex worker community here in San Francisco. He and his friend Lorelei Lee, an adult film star, decided to co-write a screenplay that would share their perspective of what it’s like to work in porn.

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