First hour: Journalist Chris Hedges
Second hour: Retired U.S. Amy Captain Sam Brown
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, professor, and activist. He's coming to the Smith Center for the Arts in Geneva for an event titled "Overthrowing the Corporate State." We'll talk to him about a wide variety of topics, including advocacy journalism, notions of a liberal media, his ideas about objectivity, and covering modern presidential administrations. Hedges joins us from WEOS, Finger Lakes Public Radio.
U.S. Amy captain Sam Brown is in Rochester to share his story of recovery and resilience. While responding to an ambushed patrol in Afghanistan in 2008, he was set on fire when his vehicle drove over a bomb. Captain Brown now uses his experience to helped wounded soldiers and returning veterans. He's a guest of CDS Life Transitions for its “Salute: A Toast to Our Veterans," event, but first, he joins us in studio to share his remarkable survival story. Our guests:
- Captain Sam Brown, U.S. Army (retired)
- Sankar Sewnauth, president and CEO of CDS Life Transitions
- Wendy Dettmer, Warrior Salute program manager at CDS Life Transitions
