Thinkers Pod: A Portal For Policy Wonks
May 12, 2007, 5:01pm
It’s time to introduce another new feature here at AirCongress. I’m not settled on a name for it yet, but I’ll call “Thinkers Pod” for now. If you have better suggestions, please e-mail them to me at danny@aircongress.com.
Here’s the concept: Think tanks in Washington (and perhaps beyond) have been adding online audio and video to their policy offerings. The conservative Heritage Foundation, for instance, is producing a series of “Heritage In Focus” videos and posts them not only to the Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network and YouTube but also to several other video-sharing sites.
The Cato Institute also has a daily podcast. And while Cato and Heritage appear to be the most prolific producers of online audio and video for now, America’s Future Foundation produces a podcast called “Inside Washington Weekly,” and The Tax Foundation airs the “Tax Policy Podcast” every two weeks
The goal of AirCongress’ “The Thinkers Pod” is to pull all of that content into one post for ease of listening/viewing. It’s a spin-off of the “Monster Media Mash-Up” that I started about two months ago to corral podcasts of mainstream media organizations.
If you’re aware of think tank podcasts or video productions that I haven’t discovered yet, please e-mail me the links. Also send along other ideas for recurring features you might like to see here at AirCongress.
And now here is the first edition of “Thinkers Pod”:
America’s Future Foundation
(Bush’s promise to veto the second Iraq spending bill)
Carnegie Council
(A discussion with Robert Hormats, the author of “The Price Of Liberty: Paying For America’s Wars”)
Cato Institute
(Who snatched the GOP?)
(Importing price controls)
(The French elect an American)
Heritage Foundation
- “This Week On The Hill”: immigration reform
- Funding the troops in Iraq to pressure Baghdad
- Is the effort to create a race-based government in Hawaii unconstitutional?
- Top 10 facts on teen sex
The Tax Foundation
(Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, discusses Social Security and tax reform)
Urban Institute
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(Reducing race and poverty barriers to academic achievement)
Categories: Podcast of the Week, AirCongress, Thinkers Pod
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