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GRITtv: Covering Healthcare, the State of Journalism, and Afghanistan
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.
Email this pageGRITtv: What's Missing In Today's Media?
Every week on GRITtv, we discuss the week in news: stories that made a splash, stories that were ignored, stories that were covered well, or stories that were covered badly. This week, guest host Esther Armah is joined by Rosalind McLymont, Editor in Chief of The Network Journal and author of Africa: Strictly Business, The Steady March to Prosperity, Karen Hunter, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the upcoming Stop Being Niggardly: And Nine Other Things Black People Need to Stop Doing, and Akiba Solomon, freelance reporter and author of Naked: Black Women Bare All About Their Skin, Hair, Hips, Lips, and Other Parts. They discuss Black History Month and Raina Kelley's Newsweek piece, The Nation's piece on the media-lobbying complex, and Ishmael Reed's New York Times op-ed about the film Precious.
GRITtv: Media Panel: Iran Missile Crisis, Public Option and the G20
Public option or no public option for health care? What will we do about Iran's nuclear advances? What exactly happened at the G20? How did mainstream media help answer them? Here to judge this week's coverage are Liliana Segura, Associate Editor for Alternet.org, Karen Fragala Smith, Associate Editor for Newsweek, and Esther Armah, Host of "Wakeup Call" on WBAI 99.5 FM in New York City.
GRITtv: Media Panel: Healthcare, US Blind to Middle East Atrocities and Tom Delay's New Gig
According to a report released last week, one person dies every 12 minutes due to lack of heath insurance-- an appalling fact ignored in the mainstream media. Also in this week's headlines: the UN General Assembly kicked off and Tom Delay joins the cast of "Dancing With the Stars." We are joined by Rose Aguilar, Andrew Golis, Ali Abunimah and Margaret Kimberley, to discuss these and other under-reported-- as well as "over-reported"-- affairs from this past week.
GRITtv: September 24, 2009
We are joined by Rose Aguilar, Andrew Golis and Margaret Kimberley to discuss underreported-- as well as "over-reported"-- affairs from this past week. Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonano share insider stories behind their latest pranks Max Blumenthal talks to us about his new book, "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party."
GRITtv: Media Panel: Van Jones' Resignation, Obama's Healthcare Speech and More Foreclosures
In the headlines this week: Obama's much anticipated healthcare speech, Glenn Beck's attack on Van Jones and his subsequent resignation and another wave of foreclosures hits the country. How did our trusted newsmakers cover these stories? To discuss, we welcome Rana Foroohar, senior editor at Newsweek; independent filmmaker and blogger Danny Schechter, Ari Melber, The Nation Net Movement correspondent and a columnist for Politico. And joining us from Oakland, California, Aimee Allison, host and producer of KPFA Pacifica Radio Morning Show.
GRITtv: September 10, 2009
In the headlines this week: Obama's much anticipated healthcare speech, Glenn Beck's attack on Van Jones and his subsequent resignation and another wave of foreclosures hits the country.
GRITtv: Media Panel: Deepening Healthcare Concerns and the Ongoing Saga of Henry Louis Gates' Arrest
Recent polls have shown more and more Americans doubting Obama's stance on health care, though the majority is still generally supportive. With Republicans and conservative Democrats balking at reform while right wing pundits condemn his plans, will Obama go the way of Clinton when it comes to health care? Most agree the issue of health care is getting sufficient coverage and exposure in the mainstream media, but is it getting the right kind of coverage? The topic has often been belittled to another means of partisan divide, and most citizens still lack basic knowledge of reform plans in favor of rhetoric from one side or the other. Mainstream media reaction to Henry Louis Gates' arrest and its aftermath continued to fill the airwaves, with Glenn Beck commenting on Obama's "racism" and desire for "reparations," Rush Limbaugh accusing him of trying to ruin a white police officer, and Michele Malkin calling him a "racial opportunist." To discuss these topics and more we're joined by Hendrik Hertzberg, Senior Editor and Staff Writer for The New Yorker, along with Editor and Publisher of The Nation Katrina Vanden Heuvel, and Nancy Giles, contributor for CBS News Sunday Morning.
