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GRITtv: Who Asks the Real Questions?
The biggest media news this week came last night when it was announced that Lou Dobbs would be leaving his CNN program. Yet there were plenty of other questions to ask this week about news coverage, and Jon Stewart can't be the only one critiquing the major media outlets. Rose Aguilar, of Your Call Radio, John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's magazine, Dan Gross, columnist at Newsweek, and Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker look at the media's biggest hits and misses of the past week.
Email this pageGRITtv: 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.
