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Jodi Jacobson on the Stupak amendment, Barbara Miner on 'merit pay'This week on CounterSpin: The Stupak Amendment, a last-minute addition to the House’s recently passed healthcare reform plan, would severely restrict abortion coverage for those on the "public option" part of the plan and those buying private insurance using government money. Many House Democrats journalists and pundits have portrayed Stupak as a sacrifice that must be made to get healthcare reform. Reproductive health advocates and many others differ, saying it could enormously impac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Trudy Lieberman on health care, Laurie Williams & Allan Zabel on cap & tradeThis week on CounterSpin : a source from a senior citizens group quoted in the Washington Post said the group’s main challenge today is simply to try to keep the record straight about what's actually in the health care reform bill, as opposed to what’s being claimed about it. That would seem to be the basic challenge facing reporters, too, but have they been too caught up with coverage of congressional politicking to do justice to it? We’ll hear from journalist Trudy Lieb ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Greg Gordon on Goldman Sachs, Phyllis Bennis on Israel/PalestineThis week on CounterSpin: A new investigative series by McClatchy newspapers’ Greg Gordon reveals that in 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs sold more than $40 billion in securities backed by risky home mortgages, "but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting." Sounds important. We’ll talk to Greg Gordon about his story.
Also on the show: Israel/Palestine is in headlines at the moment as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
David Swanson on health care debate, Bruce Dixon on the 'public option'This week on CounterSpin: Making sense of the health care debate. In the past week we've supposedly seen the comeback of the public option, in some form or another. We're also told that Harry Reid must gather 60 votes to pass a bill. Is any of this right? And what about a true public health system like single-payer? Author and activist David Swanson will join us to try and untangle these story lines.
Also on the show: Progressives and others interested in truly universal healthcare, as in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Kristin Thomson on the Performance Rights Act; Jennifer McLennan on Open AccessThis week on CounterSpin: The Performance Rights Act would require broadcasters to pay royalties that would be split between recording artists and record companies. The bill has just passed through house and senate committees, and will presumably be debated and voted on. The legislation, naturally faces strong opposition from the broadcasting industry, who say it will hurt stations and artists alike. Kristin Thomson, of the Future of Music Coalition, a group that supports the bill, will joi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Marie Trigona on Argentina media law, Peter Richardson on RampartsThis week on CounterSpin: Argentina just passed a media law that will severely curb the power of the country’s most powerful conglomerates by putting a majority of the country’s broadcast licenses in non-corporate hands. How did the law come about, and how is it expected to change Argentina’s media landscape. And what lessons might US media activists take from Argentina’s example? We’ll talk with Marie Trigona, an independent journalist and filmmaker based in A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Cyrus Safdari on Iran, Nomi Prins on bailoutsThis week on CounterSpin: The story of Iran's nuclear program certainly isn't going away; glance at the newsstands this week and you might see the Newsweek cover story 'After Iran Gets the Bomb.' And a leaked report suggesting Iran is indeed pursuing nuclear weapons made its way to the front page of the New York Times. What should we make of that story, and the general media consensus on the Iranian threat? Analyst and Iranaffairs.com blogger Cyrus Safdari will join us to share his thoughts ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gareth Porter on Iran, Christopher Martin on ACORNThis week on CounterSpin: Did the White House really disclose the existence of Iran’s new Uranium enrichment plant, and does the plant, as many news stories seem to indicate, really violate the law? And what evidence is there that the plant has anything to do with a nuclear weapons program, as certain prominent US media figures have claimed? We’ll talk to historian and free lance journalists Gareth Porter about the latest wave of allegations against Iran.
Also this week: The c ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Joseph Romm on Climate Summit, Elinore Longobardi on ‘Subprime’ vs. ...This week on CounterSpin: the highest-level conference yet on climate change took place this week at the UN. The press made much of the obstacles faced on the way to any international agreement -- but if the front page of the country's paper of record is saying that temperatures haven't risen in 10 years, maybe one of those obstacles is media coverage? We'll talk to Joseph Romm of Climate Progress.org
Also on the show: Words mean things and the way reporters use them can shade the way we s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Daniel Ellsberg and Rick Goldsmith on 'The Most Dangerous Man in America'This week on CounterSpin: The Most Dangerous Man in America. That's how Henry Kissinger described whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked a top-secret study of the Vietnam War in 1971 to the NY Times and other news outlets.
The publication resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision on freedom of the press, increased pressure to end the Vietnam War and was a key factor in the resignation of Richard Nixon. A new film tells that story. This week on a
special edition of CounterS ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mark Cook on Honduras, Diana Duarte on "Saving the World's Women"This week on CounterSpin: The media lie that will not die about the Honduras coup is that ousted president Manuel Zelaya was attempting to change the Honduran constitution in order to extend his time in office. But there is nothing new about this current set up; the same lie was used 45 years ago to remove another democratically elected president from office. Journalist Mark Cook has written about the eerie parallels in the September issue of FAIR's magazine Extra!. We'll talk to Mark Cook ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Jordan Flaherty on Katrina anniversary, Sarah Anderson on executive payThis week on CounterSpin: Corporate media promised to pay more attention to poverty and race after the Gulf Coast's Katrina disasters in 2005, and for a short time they did a little more reporting. But where was the followup on this year’s August anniversary, when papers like the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, and networks like ABC and Fox offered virtually no coverage. We'll talk to journalist Jordan Flaherty, reporting the story since 2005, about the stories from the continu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sasha Abramsky on 'Breadline USA', Jim Naureckas on the future of journalismThis week on CounterSpin: Some 25 million Americans, nearly 9 percent of the population--rely on food pantries. But with rare exceptions, and despite its devastating impact, big media just don't seem to find a reportable story in chronic hunger. A new book hopes to make the issue more visible, by actually talking to people. It's called Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It; we'll speak with author Sasha Abramsky.
Also on the show: Hard times and decreasing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Gerald LeMelle on Obama in Africa, Katha Pollitt on Caitlin Flanagan in TimeThis week on CounterSpin: Barack Obama's recent trip to Africa gave the press corps a chance to opine predictably on Obama's "unique role" as a "son of Africa" who was specially suited to "tell African leaders hard truths". It should've also been a chance for a serious look at the substance of U.S. Africa policy. How'd they do on that score? We'll hear from Gerald LeMelle of Africa Action.
Also on the show: In her Time magazine cover story, "Why Marriage Matters," Caitlin Flanagan argues f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
David Swanson on healthcare reform, Harold Meyerson on California’s budget crisisThis week on CounterSpin: "Obama May Have To Wait for Health Reform" explained one July 22 headline. Leave it to corporate media to take a life-and-death issue for millions of Americans and reduce it to an item on a president's wish list. But if they're going to mainly cover healthcare policy as inside the Beltway politicking, how good a job are they doing even of that? We'll hear from activist and author David Swanson about the current state of play in healthcare reform efforts and what th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sonali Kolhatkar on Afghan women and the war, Dedrick Muhammad on Obama's NAACP speech and ...This week on CounterSpin: Some prominent feminist and liberal voices have recently lent their endorsement to the ongoing U.S. war in Afghanistan, based on the idea that the war is an effort to improve the lives of Afghan women and girls. That was a major argument at the war's onset, but how does it stand up 8 years later? We'll talk with Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the group Afghan Women's Mission and host/producer of Uprising Radio.
Also on the show: Have you noticed how President Ba ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Alfie Kohn on education 'reform,' Iyanna Jones on 'Disappearing Voices'This week on CounterSpin: Charter schools raise a lot of concerns for educators interested in the future of truly public education; the corporate press have tended more toward boosterism of charters and their high profile promoter, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. That's the subject of a story in the current issue of Extra! and CounterSpin discussed the phenomenon on the occasion of Duncan's nomination with education expert Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve, among ot ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Trudy Lieberman on health care reform, Gary Schwitzer on health news studyThis week on CounterSpin: Healthcare reform is still the top political story of the moment. But the coverage seems to have gone from bad to worse, with noisy town hall meetings standing in the way of any coherent discussion of the dysfunctional healthcare system in this country, and what can be done about it. Trudy Lieberman has been watching healthcare coverage for Columbia Journalism Review; she'll join us to talk about what she's found.
Also on CounterSpin today: An ongoing review of ne ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Spencer Ackerman on CIA torture documents, Ed Herman on LockerbieThis week on CounterSpin: a few months ago it seemed like Dick Cheney wouldn't get off your television screen, insisting that secret CIA documents would prove that Bush torture policies saved the United States from further terrorist attacks. Well those documents have surfaced, along with a 2004 CIA inspector general's report. So what's in these documents? And has Cheney been vindicated? We'll speak with reporter Spencer Ackerman about that.Also on CounterSpin today,"Outrageous and disgustin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Matt Taibbi on Goldman SachsThis week on CounterSpin: Goldman Sachs, Wall Street profiteering and... vampire squids. Wait... what was that last one? Journalist Matt Taibbi wrote a long takedown of the venerable Wall Street firm in Rolling Stone. Business journalists pronounced themselves mostly unimpressed with Taibbi's analysis, and troubled by his language—like calling the company 'a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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