Brooke Gladstone is co-host of National Public Radio's weekend show, On the Media. An accomplished journalist, she is a frequent contributor to numerous magazines and newspapers. She is married to Pulitzer Prize winning author Fred Kaplan. NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... On the Media is an hour-long weekly radio program produced by New York Public Radio WNYC. It is broadcast on Sunday morning in New York City, and syndicated nationwide on other public radio stations. ... Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to Slate magazine. ...
BROOKEGLADSTONE: For a long time, sex was the only commodity that sold in the internet, and while other services continue to crash and burn, pornography profitably smolders on.
BROOKEGLADSTONE: And in any case, says Brian Michaels of Pocket Joy, which I said we'll get to in a minute, consumers of porn tend to be more patient than the average Joe.
BROOKEGLADSTONE: If porn were a person, with such a record of fueling technological progress, he - certainly he - would merit an award from at the very least the Chamber of Commerce, because as far as driving the modern economy is concerned, porn is better than sex.
BrookeGladstone: Well last week, a three-judge Federal Appeals Court brought journalist Judith Miller of The New York Times, and Matthew Cooper of Time Magazine, one step closer to jail because they continue to shield their source from a Grand Jury investigation.
BrookeGladstone: Actually it is an independent prosecutor, so I suppose he is part of the government.
BrookeGladstone: Yes, it does seem that Judith Miller over-relied on Ahmad Chalabi and a small group of Iraqi defectors for her information.
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