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GRITtv: Sensationalism, CNN, and Sarah Palin
GRITtv's media panel returns! This week, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Karen Hunter and Newsweek's Karen Fragala Smith join us once again to break down the good, bad, and ugly in this week's media--in this case, CNN's Haiti coverage and failing ratings, Sarah Palin's possible TV stardom, and Karl Rove's inability to handle anyone's disagreement with him. We'll leave you to judge which is good, bad, or ugly. We report, you decide?
Email this pageGRITtv: The Media as Establishment
Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own? John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation and co-author of the upcoming The Death and Life of American Journalism, thinks so. Karen Fragala Smith of Newsweek and Peter Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting also join us to discuss this week in news.
