SoundBites June 2013
Concealing a Spy Who Hid Torture; Misremembering Thatcher; PBS’s Debate on Social Security
Thatcher Lifted Millions—Says Who?
New York Times reporter John Burns admires Margaret Thatcher’s legacy. But when he claims she lifted millions to prosperity, does he have any evidence?
FAIR TV: Misremembering Thatcher, Cutting Social Security, Hillary Clinton’s Hair
Media remember Margaret Thatcher for turning around Britain’s economy. But do the numbers tell a different story? Also: Barack Obama’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare is inexplicably deemed a move to the “center,” and pundits are monitoring the 2016 election by paying close attention to… Hillary Clinton’s haircut?
Reagan Didn’t Get Thatchered
When it comes to elite media and political circles, there’s no doubt that Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher were treated the same way when they died: with gushing, uncritical celebration. They just wish the public could have been so univocal.
Laura Flanders on Margaret Thatcher, Pardiss Kebriaei on Guantanamo
Margaret Thatcher’s death brought a wave of gushing coverage of the former prime minister– but journalist Laura Flanders remembers a different Thatcher legacy; she’ll join us to talk about it. And detainees at Guantanamo have engaged in a life-threatening hunger strike for months. We’ll talk about the effort to shed light on it with Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Who Gets to Remember Margaret Thatcher?
Who gets to the top of the journalistic establishment probably has a lot to do with what they think of Margaret Thatcher’s hard-right policies.
On Thatcher, What’s the Difference Between PBS & Fox News?
it was striking to see the parallels between the way Margaret Thatcher’s death was covered on the PBS NewsHour and Fox News Channel’s most popular show, the O’Reilly Factor. Though some people like to think that PBS and Fox couldn’t be further apart, they were basically singing the same tune.
