Monday, April 20, 2009

Monday catch-up

This morning Kate Bouldan updated the latest information on American journalist Roxana Saberi, who has been sentenced to 8 years in prison in Iran on charges of being a spy:


The Committee to Protect Journalists has several articles
on the Saberi case on their Iran page.

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This morning, John Roberts spoke with Michael Hastings, who has written an article for GQ magazine on the current status in Afghanistan:


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Ben Wedeman reports on a tomb near Alexandria that may hold the remains of Antony and Cleopatra:


Ben's article for CNN.com is here.

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Finally, from this weekend's edition of Your $$$$$ (and considering the state of the economy, shouldn't that be re-titled $$$ or $$ by now?) Ali Velshi and Christine Romans talk to Richard Quest about internet piracy, car-scrapping schemes, and Susan Boyle:


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Reza Aslan will be on AC360 tonight; he is also on The Daily Show tonight, and his new book is out tomorrow! All good stuff!


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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousApril 21, 2009 at 11:13 PM

    I wish CNN would talk to more people who
    write articles for GQ,Rolling Stone, Vanity
    Fair,Time,New Yorker and others. John is
    a top notch interviewer.

    ReplyDelete

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