November 23, 2024

Part One: Korydon Smith on his piece in theconversation.com “Bridges and Roads as Important to Your Health as What’s in Your Medicine Cabinet.” How our crumbling infrastructure impacts our health. Korydon Smith is a professor and associate dean in the School of Architecture and Planning at SUNY Buffalo.

Part Two: Rodney Benson is a Professor in the Dept. of Media, Culture and Communication and an affiliated member in the Dept. of Sociology at NY University. He joins us to discuss the piece he cowrote “The Slippery Slope of the Oligarchy Media Model.” Whose interests are being served when billionaires buy newspapers and magazines?