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    Which Way, L.A.?

    Facebook and Obama, Who's Courting Whom?

    Facebook now has 600 million members, but President Obama caught on to its power a long time ago. Today, he conducted an Internet town hall from Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto.

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    By Warren Olney • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Facebook now has 600 million members, but President Obama caught on to its power a long time ago. Today, he conducted an Internet town hall from Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto. We hear more about the role of the Internet in political campaigning nationwide from Jeff Chester, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, and Barbara O'Connor, Director Emeritus of the Institute for the Study of Politics and Media at California State University at Sacramento.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Frances Anderton

      architecture critic and author

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      Karen Radziner

      Managing Producer, To the Point & Which Way LA?

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      Andrea Brody

      Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast

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      Jeff Chester

      Center for Digital Democracy

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      Barbara O'Connor

      Cal State Sacramento's Institute for the Study of Politics and Media

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    The full episode

    3 of 4
    Riordan Endorses Beutner for Mayor…Beutner Who?
    1. 0:00MLB Commissioner Selig Takes Control of Dodgers
    2. 6:00Riordan Endorses Beutner for Mayor…Beutner Who?
    3. 23:00Facebook and Obama, Who's Courting Whom?You’re reading this
    4. 28:00Food Safety, Resistance to Antibiotics and Healthy Farm Animals
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