healthcare summit
"Democracy Now!": Fri. Feb. 26 2010
As the healthcare summit ends in deadlock, single-payer advocates remain excluded. We speak to Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor Trudy Lieberman and pediatrician Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program about it. V-Day founder Eve Ensler talks about her new book, “I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World”; and as Obama pushes “clean coal,” Jeff Biggers tracks the history of destructive mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.
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As the Health Care Summit gets under way in Washington DC, our esteemed panel looks at what role our media has played in covering the never-ending health care debates since Obama assumed power. Then, with more staff cutbacks in major press rooms and talk of The National Enquirer receiving the Pulitzer Prize, what does the future of journalism look like? Finally, our three media dissectors tackle the increasingly disastrous war in Afghanistan - is the media's coverage (or lack thereof) leading to more death and destruction? Joining us around the table today we have Rich Kim, senior editor at The Nation Magazine, Megan Carpentier, former news and politics editor for Air America Media, and currently guest contributer to the Washington Independent, and Danny Schechter, author of Crime of the Decade, producer of the new documentary Plunder, and editor-in-chief of NewsDissector.com.
