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May 20, 2011 Read an excerpt from Brooke Gladstone's The Influencing Machine.

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April 15, 2011 The audience for Egypt's Bassem Youssef Show is growing as fast as a snowball rolling down a hill — and it exemplifies everything that is new about media in post-revolutionary Egypt.

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November 5, 2010 Commentator Brooke Gladstone — host of NPR's On The Media — finds fault with MSNBC's decision to suspend the host of its most popular show after he made political contributions to three Democrats. "We all know true objectivity is a myth," she says.

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September 10, 2010 Media coverage of Pastor Terry Jones' plan to burn the Quran has been extensive. Brooke Gladstone, host of NPR's On The Media, says the story exposes more about American media than it does about the American people.

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June 12, 2000 "Take the 'A' Train" was written in 1938 by Billy Strayhorn to impress his prospective employer, Duke Ellington. It became one of the most recognizable jazz tunes of all time, and Ellington and Strayhorn became inseparable collaborators. NPR's Brooke Gladstone reports.

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