Hot Media with Bob Mann

Hot Media with Bob Mann episode 125 is entitled "Doctor My Eyes!" We're watching a lot of TV during the quarantine. Some of it is great and some of it annoying. We sort it out with Professor Paul Levinson of Fordham University. Dr. Levinson also explains how this can be a great opportunity to catch up on classic series we never had time to watch.

"Hot Media with Bob Mann" episode 131, "The Whole World Is Watching!" looks at media coverage of the protest movement. Bob's guest is Rod Hicks of the Society of Professional Journalists. Bob and Rod also discuss the need for more African-American journalists to provide black perspectives in media coverage and commentary.

"Hot Media with Bob Mann" episode 130 "Goodbye Joe Friday" looks at the future of TV police dramas in light of the global protests over police brutality. Some critics of the genre have described the heroic image of police on TV with the term "copaganda." Reality shows such as COPS have already been cancelled in response to the protest movement. Bob's guest, well-known TV critic David Hinckley, feels that police and medical dramas are the "bedrock of television" and aren't going away. They may, however, undergo change.

The topic of "Hot Media with Bob Mann" episode 126 is an amazing multi-media project entitled "Hope After Hate." Broadcast Journalist & Professor Hagit Limor is Bob's guest. Hagit has a love of teaching. She brought her students into the "Hope After Hate" project which is very personal to her. It centers on the story of her father Moniek who survived the Holocaust as a child. The focus of this HM episode is the involvement of her college students in the project. They have completed a documentary about how Hagit's project was produced and what its message means to them.

"Hot Media with Bob Mann" looks at the media's take on gentrification. Bob talks with playwright Joseph Gallo about his work entitled "Yuppies Invade My House at Dinner." The story of this production starts forty years ago with letters to a newspaper editor from upset citizens. Those letters become a book and Gallo is now crafting a play. The primary focus is Hoboken NJ, but the conversation deals with the controversies surrounding gentrification across the nation.