Gareth Porter on Iran, Christopher Martin on ACORN

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DATE : Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:00:00 +0100
Entered in Database : 2009-10-02 04:00:00
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This 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 community activist group ACORN has been in the news lately thanks to the efforts of two right-wing activists, who posed as a pimp and a prostitute seeking business advice at local offices. The story's become a national scandal, but a new study suggests that this is par for the course for ACORN and the corporate media. Who's behind the anti-ACORN campaign? We'll talk it over with Christopher Martin, professor of journalism at the University of Northern Iowa and co-author of a new report on ACORN and the media. LINKS: --"U.S. Story on Iran Nuke Facility Doesn't Add Up," by Gareth Porter (CounterPunch, 9/30/09 --"Manipulating the Public Agenda: Why ACORN Was in the News, and What the News Got Wrong," by Christopher Martin and Peter Dreier