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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: 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?
