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Over the past 18 months Blog Week in Review, hosted by author, syndicated columnist and blogger Col. Austin Bay has changed and evolved, including its eventual incorporation into Pajamas’ weekly PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio’s POTUS ‘08 presidential election channel.
Austin’s program will continue to cover issues explored on the web and on Weblogs, but the web is maturing. We are in world of convergence media—broadcast radio, satellite radio, Weblogs, Websites, Web podcasts, broadcast TV, Internet video—digital capabilities are bringing these media together. And to better reflect the expanded nature of the show, it’s now known as Deep Background .
The new format’s debut edition is a fascinating interview with Michael Knox Beran, a contributing editor to City Journal magazine, and the author of Forge of Empires 1861-1871: Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made, concurrent profiles of Tsar Alexander II, Otto von Bismarck, and Abraham Lincoln. The latter of the three and his pivotal role in history is also discussed in an article that Beran recently contributed to City Journal, provactively titled “How Lincoln Saved The World.”
The December 27th edition of Pajamas’ PJM Political show on XM Satellite Radio will feature a portion of this interview; this is both a sneak preview of this coming week’s XM show, and the full length “director’s cut” edition of Austin’s interview with Beran.
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