Jan 26th, 2010 · Howard Stern could be returning to old-fashioned radio. The morning shock jock moved to satellite radio with a five-year contract worth $500 million. The contract is about to expire. Clear Channel Communications tells the AP it is interested in signing him. There's one catch: Stern would have to agree to the limitations on profanity.
Nov 3rd, 2009 · In her weekly commentary host Michel Martin gives her take on whether President Obama's off-hour golf outings and pickup basketball games are sexist and exclusionary to female staffers at the White House. Martin suggests the criticism is displaced.
Jul 20th, 2009 · The first astronauts — swaggering test pilots and fighter jocks — set NASA's original can-do tone. But after NASA reached the moon, senior people left and were replaced by management types. NASA's dynamic has slowed, but the sheer distance to Mars is not to be underestimated.
May 4th, 2009 · Malina Saval wasn't satisfied with the easy archetypes — nerd, jock — people turn to when talking about teenage boys. She interviewed 30 to find out who they are and what they think for her book, The Secret Lives Of Boys.
Feb 9th, 2009 · Before Don Imus, and before Howard Stern, there was Petey Greene. Greene was a legendary shock jock and TV talk show host, but to black residents of Washington, D.C., he was much more; Petey Greene was the voice of the African American community. Joining Tony Cox is Dewey Hughes, Greene's long time friend and manager.
Apr 3rd, 2008 · Teen movies are all about stereotypes -- the geek, the jock, the popular girl. But the new trend among filmmakers is to let teens tackle issues beyond detention and prom.
Dec 24th, 2007 · John Powers, Fresh Air critic at large, weighs in on the trends of 2007: political campaigns, Iraq movies failing at the box office, HBO's The Sopranos, stories about hitting the road, the TMZing of America, jocks gone wild, hip sentimentality, the nightly ideological news, atheist chic and the writers strike.
Dec 3rd, 2007 · Radio shock-jock Don Imus returned to the air Monday, repentant but, in the eyes of critics, not yet redeemed. His new program airs on WABC in New York and has limited national distribution.