| Tonight on TDS, George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, Chief Washington Correspondent, host of This Week with George Stephanopoulos ; and on TCR, it's Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Coming Plague. |
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The host of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" will presumably discuss this week with Jon.
That's what the Daily Show website says about tonight's guest. All I have to add is this. from his Twitter page:
Just landed in NY. Guest on Jon Stewart's Daily Show couch tonight. Should be fun about 5 hours ago from TinyTwitter
I note a couple things. First, "about 5 hours ago" would be at about 3pm EDT. Unless maybe there's a clock problem (doesn't seem to be one with my computer, nor with other twitter feeds. Sam Seder posted 17 minutes ago.) The show usually films at 5:30-ish. Does it take that long to do his makeup? Although that would explain why they stock the green room with tequila and candy bars...
Second, there's no follow-up, no "hey the green room's really green! And looky at the goodie bag, and ooh! candy bars!" comments.This suggests certain things about his understanding of interactive technologies (he has, however, conducted an interview via Twitter).
And that's pretty much all the content I can generate about this guy. |
Laurie Garret is an award-winning Science journalist and Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The book that's listed is The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, originally published in 1995, absolutely worth reading. Possibly worth re-reading. Wonder if I gave that away? I don't think I've read her second book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (pub. 2000). Anyway, she's gotta be here to talk about the swine H1N1 apocalypse no seriously it's gonna kill us all current unusual flu epidemic pandemic outbreak occurances.
Among the various recent articles out there which Google turned up, most of which quote her, my favorite is fairly recent:
Keep washing your piggies.
Cautious person that you are, you’ve boiled your hands in a pot on the stove every 15 minutes, you’ve developed the saucy swagger of cool to go with your face mask, you’ve given up shoe shopping among crowds at the mall (and that was painful), and you’re chartering a personal jet if you have to fly. But I ask you: Are you SURE you’ve covered all your bases against the Swine Flu?
Bet you’ve slipped into carrying your children "piggy back," ...
You are still letting your children read about Porky Pig, and the "Three Little Pigs," ... Your pot belly pig is still sleeping on the end of the bed and you haven’t flushed your guinea pig down the toilet. You even made a Saturday lunch of pigs in a blanket -- what are we going to do with you? Don’t blame me if throwing the old pigskin around the backyard renders you bedfast. Don’t even let me get started on boars! Kleenex and Purelle aren’t a deterrent against your blatant display of disregard for this Swine pandemic. And Pandemic is a scary word as it trills off the newscasters’ tongues.
This all has something to do with a bird and a pig -- now that’s just not natural!
Anyway, I found a few of her recent interviews, and a bunch of articles published in the past few days (and a Newsweek cover story published either three days ago or 13 days from now, depending). Just in case you've been in an isolation chamber a media free space recently.
Anyway, this is a get. I won't be refreshing StephenAtHome's feed during this interview. Might throw the kitten's fluffyball a bit, though.
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