KCRW/Santa Monica-Los Angeles' 'Left, Right & Center' Expanding To An Hour

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Long-running SANTA MONICA COLLEGE Triple A-News-Talk KCRW/SANTA MONICA-LOS ANGELES news debate show "LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER" is expanding from 30 minutes to an hour starting JULY 7th.

The weekly show, which features representatives from liberal, conservative, and centrist perspectives and airs FRIDAYS at 2:30p (PT) with a replay at 7p and is also distributed as a podcast, is currently moderated by BUSINESS INSIDER Senior Editor and MSNBC contributor JOSH BARRO with THE NATION's KATRINA VANDEN HEUVEL on the left and NATIONAL REVIEW's RICH LOWRY on the right.  The show, which began in 1996, also airs on 30 other stations across the country.

PD GARY SCOTT said,“Political discourse is at a low point. Talking heads are preying on this divide. This makes KCRW's LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER is more important than ever. Few places are committed to reasoned discussion and real listening by all sides. LRC is one of KCRW's most popular shows, on air and as a podcast, which shows that now is the time to double our efforts - and the time we spend - on this critical exchange.... After hitting an all-time high of almost one million podcast downloads last MAY, we knew this was a conversation that required more air time. Thanks to JOSH, KATRINA and RICH for continuing to encourage the kind of refreshing conversation that is sorely needed in today's exhausting news cycle.”

VANDEN HEUVEL said, “I believe that intelligent political commentary demands independent thinking. In an age when journalism seems more defined by partisanship, I welcome being part of LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER, a show that seeks complexity not certainty. And at a time when we see a coarsening of language and a vilification of those whose ideas aren't a match with our own, the show provides a forum for airing substantive disagreements in a bold, meaningful way and with a respect that is often lacking in our media today.”

LOWRY said,  “At a time of poisonous incivility in our public life, LEFT, RIGHT & CENTER provides a platform for sharp but civil disagreement, where substance trumps rhetoric and persuasion is more important than denunciation.  The program is an oasis where ideas still matter and differences over them are aired fully, sincerely--and respectfully. Bombast need not apply."

And BARRO said, “American politics has gotten more polarized and weirder than ever before in my life. It feels like both sides are talking past each other. We like to say our show provides a 'civilized yet provocative' forum to share ideas across the political spectrum, engaging without sniping. Such engagement is increasingly rare, yet more important than ever. So we're going to provide more of it."

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