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This week on CounterSpin: We’ll talk with author and media critic Norman Solomon about getting out of Iraq. Also: Alternet contributor Onnesha Roychoudhuri discusses the Wall Street Journal’s tortured position on detainee abuse.
This week on CounterSpin: The press on George W. Bush’s fresh WMD claims. Also this week: Guardian columnist George Monbiot joins for a discussion about the US military’s use of white phosphorus against civilians in Fallujah and how the Pentagon has responded.
This week on CounterSpin, Joshua Holland of Alternet joins to discuss the so-called oil-for-food scandal and how a right-wing spin has been driving the story. Also: Director Andrew Schwartzman on the Media Access Project.
ConsortiumNews.com editor Robert Parry joins to discuss the latest Bush scandal, and how the news media seem eager to help the White House get back on its feet. Also this week: Judge Samuel Alito and the media’s selective coverage of his record, with Columbia law professor Michael C. Dorf.
Journalist Laura Rozen joins to discuss to scandal currently unfolding in Italy, and what this could mean for the White House. Also on the show: Hip hop journalist Jeff Change on the Village Voice merger and what this means for alternative media.
Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post joins to discuss The New York Times coverage of Judith Miller. Also on the show: Author Dave Zirin talks about his new book and attempts to answer the question– do sports and radical politics mix?
This week on CounterSpin: Earl Ofari Hutchinson joins to discuss the racist tropes that dominated headlines post-Katrina. Also on the program: Ward Harkavy of the Village Voice on the Judith Miller saga and another story, involving Dick Cheney, that seems to be flying under the major media radar.
Andrew Wetzler of the Natural Resources Defense Council on the Endangered Species Act. Also on the show: WBAI radio host and producer Bob Lederer provides some much needed context about current protests and politics in Puerto Rico.
John Feffer on North Korea. Also on the show: ACLU’s Melissa Goodman discusses the incredible secrecy that continues to surround the Patriot Act.
Supreme Court nominee John Roberts passed the media confirmation process without much scrutiny. . . With all that praise, what are we missing? Elliot Mincberg of People for the American Way joins to answer that question. Also on the show: David Enders discusses one aspect of the current Iraq debate that gets next to no media attention.
This week Jamie Court of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights joins the show to discuss the market and profiteering post-Katrina. Also on the program: We’ll talk to Knight-Ridder reporter Johnathan Landay about who was really in charge of the federal response to Katrina.
This week on CounterSpin: A discussion with Rosa Brooks, of the University of Virginia School of Law, about mainstream media’s ‘startling discovery’ of poor people.
How could some of the devastation from Hurricane Katrina have been prevented? Philadelphia Daily News reporter discusses how many– including some in the media– had warned that federal spending cuts would spell disaster for New Orleans. Also this week: Christopher Martin speaks on the biased coverage of the Northwest Airline strike by corporate media.
Antonia Juhasz on Iraq’s U.S.-imposed economic structure. Also this week: Brian Komar discusses media coverage of the Darfur genocide in Sudan.
Media coverage tends to focus solely on the suffering of Israeli settlers, largely failing to include Palestinian views and the larger context in which the withdrawals of settlers are taking place. Also this week: business lobbyists and conservative politicians like to push the narrative that frivolous lawsuits are leading to unfair payouts to plaintiffs. Myron Levin, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, shares that those groups often benefit from misleading media coverage of the civil justice system.
Wenonah Hauter of Public Citizen discusses a recently passed energy bill. Also this week: Anthony Riddle talks about corporate media attempts to disregard public access requirements.
How has media been covering AFL-CIO? Also this week: Greg Mitchell discusses his new documentary, which explores the government’s efforts to keep the truth about Hiroshima and Nagasaki hidden from public view.
How has media responded to new research from the group Iraq Body Count? Also on the show: Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy on what’s fueling protests around the new television series, “America’s Heartland.”
A discussion on recent appointee to the US Supreme Court, John Roberts, with journalist Adele Stan and Eliot Mincberg, legal director for the group People for the American Way.
FAIR editor Jim Naureckas joins CounterSpin to talk about the limits of journalistic confidentiality. Also this program: how much power does the pharmaceutical industry wield when it comes to the media?
