Bishop on Air

June 24, 2009

Greg Bishop will be live from the downtown studios at 210 S. 5th Street in Springfield, Illinois for Thoma Time. Catch the show, streaming worldwide at WMAY dot com, from 3-6 CST.

Today on the show: WE WILL NOT TALK ABOUT PEREZZ HILTON, I'M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE, OR SPORTS!!!

Unless you are a junkie for news feeds, catch news you may not have heard about in the past 24 hours.

Also, a discussion about President Obama's health care policy carried over from yesterday. What is the upside and downside to the health care plan proposed by President Obama and many on the left? Just how will the private health care industry be effected, and doesn't the government have problems paying their bills as is? From someone who pays for health care out of pocket, how does it affect Americans and families across the country?

Another topic carried over from yesterday is that of social networking sites. Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube have been huge in getting grassroots news out of Iran after the continued media crackdown by the Iranian Government. Tune in to understand the balance between tyranny and the free press.

And let us not forget the story held over from yesterday: the local police stations signing on to MySpace. Are they jumping on the data mining bandwagon? What are the purposes for their infiltration of MySpace? Would you be their friend? They should be twittering (so they could send out alerts, rather than collecting data).

This and so much more while Greg Bishop fills in for Mark Thoma on Thoma Time. You calls encouraged at 217.629.7970 or email bishop@wmay.com. Live from the downtown studios on S. 5th, it's Thoma Time on 970 WMAY, the News and Talk of Springfield.