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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: Rose Aguilar: When Will the Media Remove the Spotlight From the Far-Right Fringe in the Healthcare Debate?
Rose Aguilar of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco lays out the media's distorted coverage of perspectives on healthcare reform.
GRITtv: Media Panel: Obama's Press Conference, Handling Torture Under the Bush Administration, and Walter Cronkite
Journalists at President Obama's press conference Wednesday asked about his current plans for health care reform as well as his thoughts on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. What implications are there for health care reform now that he's admitted not everyone would be covered by a single payer system, and did he skirt the issue of race when it came to Gates?
