Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the 9th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay prison. We will also talk about Gov. Brown's proposed budget. Where's the reporting on the state and local corporate welfare? We'll be joined by California Watch's Chase Davis, Tax Notes' David Cay Johnson and independent journalist Andy Worthington. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Chase Davis, an investigative reporter with California Watch where he covers money and politics

David Cay Johnson, a Tax Analysts columnist and a Pulitzer Prize-winning independent investigative journalist and author

Andy Worthington, an independent reporter and author

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the military spending bill and its Guantanamo Bay provisions. We'll also talk about the recent assassination of the governor of Pakistan's Punjab Province and the ongoing drone attacks there. We'll be joined by ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, Boston Globe's Bryan Bender, and Newsline's Zahid Hussain. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Bryan Bender, a reporter for the Boston Globe's Washington Bureau

Zahid Hussain, senior editor at Newsline in Pakistan

Dafna Linzer, a senior reporter for ProPublica

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the trial of Guantanamo Bay's youngest detainee. Also this week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates outlined the U.S. military strategy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, and in the midst of massive flooding, Pakistan shut down two TV stations. We'll be joined by Pakistan's Geo TV reporter Sami Ibrahim, Propublica's Chisun Lee, and McClatchy's Jonathan Landay. What grabbed your attention this week? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jonathan Landay, national security and intelligence correspondent with McClatchy

Sami Ibrahim, Geo news TV correspondent based in New York

Chisun Lee, a reporter for ProPublica

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the SEC accusing Goldman Sachs of defrauding its investors, financial reform, the People's Summit on Climate Change in Bolivia, and the fate of Guantanamo detainees. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. We'll be joined by ProPublica's Dafna Linzer, Time Magazine's Jean Friedman-Rudovsky -- she just returned from Bolivia -- and the Washington Independent's Annie Lowrey. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Annie Lowrey covers the economy for The Washington Independent. During the 2008 presidential campaign, she worked on the editorial staff of The New Yorker in the Washington bureau.

Dafna Linzer, a national security reporter with Propublica.

Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, a freelance journalist in La Paz, Bolivia, where she reports for Time magazine. She is the co-founder of Ukhampacha Bolivia, an online journal covering political and social movements in Latin America.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. Harper's editor Scott Horton joins us to discuss his six-month investigation about three Guantanamo detainees who died in 2006. The U.S. government says they committed suicide. A former sergeant says they were tortured. Why is it getting so little coverage in the national media?

We'll also discuss the lack of coverage of the devastating storm that's left the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota without power, water, or heat. And we'll find out how reporters who have no choice but to cover Iran from outside the country are getting their stories. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Scott Horton, Harper's editor
Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal's Middle East bureau chief
Scott Waltman, Aberdeen American News reporter

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Your Call 100209 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Senate Finance Committee voted down plans for a public option in health care. The White House announced it might not be able to close Guantanamo prison by January, and there's a renewed focus on the Iranian nuclear program. We'll be joined by Andreas Zumach, who covers the UN for the German daily Die Tagezeitung, Huffington Post's Ryan Grim, and ProPublica's Dafna Linzer. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did journalists fall short? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Ryan Grim, senior congressional correspondent for the Huffington Post

Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica

Andreas Zumach, a journalist reporting on the United Nations in Geneva, for the German newspaper "Die tageszeitung" (taz)

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Your Call 112008 Leaving Guantanamo

On the next Your Call, we're going to be talking about what to do with the approximately 250 people imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay. Only 23 have been charged with any official crime. President-elect Obama vows to restore America's moral stature in the world, but how easily will that be done in Guantanamo Bay? On the next Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jennifer Daskal, Senior Counsel, Terrorism/Counterterrorism, Human Rights Watch. Jennifer was deeply involved in the discussions over US detention policy taking place in Congress during 2007 and is a leading voice in the ongoing efforts to limit the effects of counterterrorism legislation on refugee and asylum seekers.

Nadia Asancheyev, Fellow, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, Georgetown University Law School. Nadia has extensive experience working on Guantanamo detainee issues, including work on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the case that challenged the policy of military trials at Guantanamo Bay.

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Your Call 071108 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it is our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll speak with Tom Lasseter, Moscow Bureau Chief for McClatchy and the lead reporter on a recent five part series about the prisoners at Guantanamo, many whom were radicalized by their treatment. What was the response to 8 months of investigation? We'll also speak with National Public Radio's Ombudswoman Lisa Shepard. Where did the news media succeed and where did it fall short this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Tom Lasseter in Moscow
Bureau chief for McClatchy and the lead reporter for a recently published a five-part series detailing the U.S.'s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. The series was the culmination of an eight-month investigation, during which McClatchy interviewed 66 former detainees, few of whom had talked before with reporters.

Lisa Shepard in Washington DC
Ombudsman for NPR. Prior to joining NPR for the 2 year appointment, Shepard was a journalism instructor and analyst.

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Your Call 071008 Guantanamo Diary

What was it like to come face to face with the men called the worst of the worst, only to find out they were no such thing? On the next Your Call we speak with Mahvish Khan, author of My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. Khan, an American lawyer born to immigrant Afghan parents, volunteered to be a translator for detainees in Guantanamo. Instead of the worst killers she found innocent men caged by the worst excesses of the War on Terror. How is it that a country can illegally imprison innocent people, and also give an immigrant's child the opportunity to intervene on their behalf? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Mahvish Rukhsana Khan in San Francisco
Author of My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. Khan, an American Lawyer with Afghan immigrant parents, made more than 30 trips to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to interpret for the Pashto speaking detainees.

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Your Call 062308 What was the Supreme Court's most important decision lately?

What was the Supreme Court's most important decision in the current session? On the next Your Call, as the Supreme Court wraps up its term, we'll take a look at some of its rulings. From Guantanamo to the death penalty to age discrimination, the Court has decided over 80 cases. What effects have President Bush's conservative appointees had on this session? Were you closely following the cases? And what's the future like for Supreme Court? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Michael Waldman is director of the Brennan Center for Justice, an institute at New York University School of Law.

Professor Neil Kinkopf of the College of Law at Georgia State.

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Your Call 051308 Guantanamo's Future

The major candidates running for president say if elected, they will close down Guantanamo. Then what? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the future of U.S. counter terrorism policies with Human Rights Watch's Stacy Sullivan. She recently sat in on a trial in Guantanamo. We'll also talk with Ivan Eland, The Independent Institute senior fellow. What will happen to Guantanamo's 280 prisoners if it shuts down? And what can we expect from the conversation about counter terrorism in the lead up to the Nov. election? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ivan Eland is a Fellow with the Independent Institute and the author of The Empire: Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed.

Stacy Sullivan is a counterterrorism advisor with Human Rights Watch. She is just back from Guantanamo where she was a court observer.

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