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The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with former Times Union Editor and current Substack columnist Rex Smith and WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock. This week the pair were joined by Judy Patrick, former Editor of the Daily Gazette and Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association, and Adjunct Professor at RPI and Investigative Journalist, Rosemary Armao. Our panel discusses the not-so-hidden costs of paid obituaries; how “pink slime” journalism diminishes faith in local news outlets; and the restrictions imposed on media at a Republican rally in Florida.

Acclaimed TV writer and the executive producer of award-winning shows such as “Modern Family” and “How I Met Your Mother,” Stephen Lloyd’s new novel debut, “Friend of the Devil,” is a horror/noir mash-up set at an elite boarding school harboring secrets.

On this week’s 51%, we speak with Drs. Elena Lister and Michael Schwartzman about their new book "Giving Hope: Conversations with Children About Illness, Death, and Loss," on how to discuss death and grief in a way that leaves kids feeling safe, supported, and resilient.

This writer is particularly astute and amusing about manners, about aging, and about their intersection: “The shusher in the movie is always much louder than the person who’s talking; I’ve become a shusher.” Impressively, he has the self-awareness to recognize it, the courage to admit it, and the sense of humor to make it bearable.

Daniel Griffin, an assistant professor of geography at the University of Minnesota, recently published “This 500-Year-Old Tree in California Has a Story to Tell.”

Each Wednesday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. “Live At The Linda” brings you some of the best musical acts to grace the stage at The Linda - WAMC's Performing Arts Studio. This week, it’s the sound of distant past from 1960s Vegas to Celtic/ Scottish folk. Travel back in time with Jerry Gretzinger, The Waterboys, and Jimmy Webb.

Dan Brown is the author of numerous #1 bestselling novels including “The Da Vinci Code” which has become one of the best-selling novels of all time as well as the subject of intellectual debate among readers and scholars. “The Da Vinci Code” is one of five novels featuring his symbology professor protagonist, Robert Langdon.

(Airs 09/08/22 @ 3 p.m. & 09/10/22 @ 5:30 a.m.) WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Democratic New York state Senator James Skoufis.

This coming Wednesday and Thursday nights, Saturn is the very nearest star to the Moon. And since Saturn reached its annual near point to Earth just three weeks ago, it happens to be as big as possible. We’d usually also say it’s as bright as it gets too, but that’s now changing because its rings are slowly getting oriented more and more sideways.

(Airs 09/09/22 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette:State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa visits the Schenectady City School District, our political Observer Alan Chartock on his conversation with Democratic state Senator James Skoufis, and the state Farm Laborers Wage Board recommends lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers.