George Saunders on "Megaphone Guy"

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Satirist George Saunders has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." For his essay on the dumbing down on American media, he created "Megaphone Guy." Saunders reads from his essay, "The Braindead Megaphone" and talks with Jim Fleming about Megaphone Guy and his effect on the media.