NewsWorks Tonight April 7, 2014 – Full Show
ListenShirley Min reports on today’s protest over what some see as lenient sentencing for a 2008 child rape by an heir to the du Pont fortune. NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller speaks with Dr. Dan Romer of the Annenberg Public Policy Center on a new study that correlates declining smoking rates with lower numbers of depictions of smoking on TV. NewsWorks blogger Solomon Jones gives a remembrance of longtime Philadelphia Daily News Columnist Chuck Stone. Peter Crimmins talks to would-be extras in a West Philadelphia Shakespeare production. And Franklin Institute Chief Astronomer Derrick Pitts says the cooling relations between the US and Russia extend even to collaborations on space exploration.
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