March 19, 2012: Morning
- Heavy fighting erupts in Damascus; UN estimates more than 8,000 have died in the uprising so far.
- Al Jazeera airs 25-minute, undercover iPhone documentary of the Syrian revolt.
- Near the end, Osama bin Laden was obsessed with rebranding.
- Gloria Steinem doesn't need to be replaced—"Gloria Steinem" shouldn't have existed in the first place, says Gloria Steinem.
- NPR ombudsman defends story about corporate sponsor Red Bull.
- Reporter—who won a Pulitzer for studying such deaths—asks why leaving a child to die in a car is a crime.
- Monday morning uplift: Penny Hardaway coaches kids in Memphis.
- This American Life devotes episode to retracting episode about Mike Daisey's visit to an Apple factory in China.
- Glass interviews Times reporter to see if you should feel bad about buying an iPhone; short answer: yes.
- See also: TMN's Matthew Baldwin on storytelling and his ex-coworker, Daisey.
- And one more, from 2007: Investigation into David Sedaris's truthiness.
- Monkey-catchers difficult to hire in Dehli for fear of monkeys.
- Horror stories of a man born in a North Korean prison camp.
- Beginning about 10 years ago, paper began to die; receipts will be replaced in the next decade.
- Profile of Whit Stillman, filmer of WASPs.