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Friday, November 14 2014

  • The FBI Blackmails MLK, A Comet's Song, and Reviving Net Neutrality November 14, 2014

    A newly released letter reveals the FBI's attempt to blackmail MLK into committing suicide. Plus, the song of the 67P comet.&nbsp; (episode)

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    • Resuscitating Net Neutrality November 14, 2014

      As Obama's first post-midterms policy proposal, net neutrality has once again been shocked with a defibrillator. Bob speaks with NYT reporter Edward Wyatt about the latest developments. 

    • Can Journalism Impact Criminal Justice? November 14, 2014

      The Marshall Project, a new not-for-profit investigative journalism organization, focuses&nbsp;its coverage on the American criminal justice system.&nbsp;

    • The Suicide Letter November 14, 2014

      The attempts by late FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to discredit Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were an ugly and well-documented chapter in American history.&nbsp;

    • 'Subversives' November 14, 2014

      In 1981, student journalist Seth Rosenfeld began researching the FBI's misconduct in its investigations of 1960s student protests at UC Berkeley.

    • Survivor Library November 14, 2014

      In 1959, a solar storm threw an electromagnetic pulse at Earth so strong it&nbsp;fried the telegraph system. A whole lot more is on the line now. &nbsp;

    • A Trilogy About the End of the World November 14, 2014

      Ben Winters considers the role of media before the arrival of an Earth-destroying asteroid in his trilogy, The Last Policeman.&nbsp;

    • Listen To a Comet Sing November 14, 2014

      This week, the European Space Agency&rsquo;s Philae space probe landed on comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;