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GRITtv: Kate Clinton: Social Notworking
Kate Clinton examines the faces behind the new social networking--the brave new faces of a new media world that look very much like the same old faces of the same old media world. Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Dave Zirin: Fighting the NFL Lockout
"It's not about dollars and cents, it's about owners telling players who is boss," says Dave Zirin, sports columnist for The Nation, about the impending NFL lockout. Even Barack Obama has gotten into the act, though, writing off the labor dispute in professional football as "millionaires fighting billionaires" and ignoring the real factors in the fight, from the health risks and short careers the players face to the people who will be out of work if football doesn't go on--while the owners sign a TV contract that pays them even if there is no season. Dave joins us via Skype to give us the latest on why progressives should stand with the NFL players, and the connections to the labor struggles going on around the country right now. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Dave Zirin: The Super Bowl and Two Souls in Sports
"Just as we would argue about cinema or theater or dance, progressives sometimes only see the bad and not the good," in sports, says Nation sports columnist and Edge of Sports radio host Dave Zirin. Just in time for the Super Bowl, Dave has a new documentary out, Not Just a Game: Power, Politics & American Sports, based on his book A People's History of Sports in the United States. Dave joins Laura in studio for a conversation about the role of sports in our lives, and the role of progressives in sports. He calls for us to pay attention both to heroic athletes like Muhammad Ali who didn't fear speaking out, and to the everyday struggles of the players, and tells us why he's rooting for the Green Bay Packers in the Super Bowl.
GRITtv: Dave Zirin: Suspend Notre Dame Football
It’s past time that the storied Notre Dame football squad had its program suspended. In a season of heartbreak and horror under new coach Brian Kelly, the Fighting Irish have more than earned what's known as the NCAA's dreaded "death penalty." Historically, teams have received the "death penalty" for illegal recruiting or paying players under the table. The cynics—or perhaps the realists—will point out that most of the programs on the college football map are dirtier than a Vegas city council meeting. Why single out Notre Dame? Simply put, those running the football program in South Bend are guilty of something worse than the payoffs and kickbacks that pepper many of the top so-called amateur teams. Distributed by Tubemogul.
GRITtv: Dave Zirin: Why Does Glenn Beck Hate the World Cup?
"Beck rejects soccer because his idealized “real America”—in all its monochromatic glory—rejects it as well." Dave Zirin, sports editor for The Nation, says that and a whole lot more in his commentary on why Glenn Beck--and the rest of the Right--hates World Cup soccer.
GRITtv: GlobalGirl Media: World Cup Opening Day
The Kick It Up project at GlobalGirl Media has trained high school girls from South Africa and Los Angeles as videographers and reporters at the World Cup of soccer in South Africa. We are proud to play the first of several clips from opening day at the Soweto Fanpark, where the girls speak to fans and supporters about what the World Cup means, to them and to their country.
GRITtv: Kate Clinton: Women's History Month
Kate Clinton is back with some thoughts on Tiger Woods' image rehabilitation, sports fever, women's history month, and the Oscars, as well as Jim Bunning's singlehanded choice to deny unemployment benefits to more than 400,000 people.
