Left, Right, & Center is a weekly hour-long public radio program that provides a "civilized yet provocative antidote to the self-contained opinion bubbles that dominate political debate".[1] The program is also distributed as a political podcast.[2] The show is recorded each Friday, produced by KCRW in Santa Monica, California, by Laura Dine Million.
Genre | Talk show |
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Running time | Circa 60 minutes |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | KCRW |
Syndicates | KCRW |
Hosted by | David Greene |
Recording studio | Santa Monica, California |
Audio format | Stereophonic |
Website | www |
After covering the week's events and speaking to invited guests about other topics of interest, each host gets a short period of time to rant or rave about whatever they like without fear of rebuttal. Effective with the broadcast of July 7, 2017, the show expanded from a half-hour to a full hour and changed its long-time theme music—"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong—with a new instrumental theme.[citation needed]
Co-hosts and guests
editThe show's regular co-hosts are the following:
- David Greene, co-founder of Fearless Media, represents the political center, and is the moderator. Until July 2022, Josh Barro, columnist at New York magazine, represented the center as moderator.[3] Until January 2015, Matthew Miller, senior fellow at the progressive Center for American Progress represented the center as moderator.[4]
- Sarah Isgur, an American attorney, political commentator and former spokesperson in the United States Department of Justice in the first Trump administration. Previous co-hosts on the political right include David Frum, Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review and Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of The Washington Times.
- Mo Elleithee, an American political campaign strategist and Executive Director at Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service, represents the political left. Previous co-hosts include Elizabeth Bruenig and Robert Scheer.
- Formerly, Arianna Huffington was also a regular member of the panel.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Left, Right & Center". Official web site. KCRW. Archived from the original on October 22, 2008. Retrieved October 19, 2007.
- ^ Gabillet, Annie (June 15, 2016). "8 Podcasts That Make It Easy to Be Smart". PopSugar.com. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
...NPR Politics: NPR Politics features off-the-cuff discussions among NPR's political reporters ...
- ^ "NSA, Immigration and Nice Nails | Left, Right & Center". KCRW. May 8, 2015.
- ^ "American Progress". Americanprogress.org. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
- ^ "Arianna Huffington". Kcrw.com. November 29, 2013. Retrieved September 28, 2016.
External links
edit- Official website
- Disqus – KCRW Left, Right & Center — discussion site abandoned near the end of 2018, but older posts still available.
- TruthDig.com