Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the protests and elections in Egypt as well as the latest news of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Egyptians went to the polls this week following violent and deadly protests in Tehran last week. In Occupy news, Los Angeles has become the latest big city to evict its encampment. Politicians have praised the LAPD for their tactics, though some protesters are still claiming excessive force was used. We'll be joined by AlterNet's Joshua Holland, Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, and writer and journalist Anand Gopal. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Angie Coiro and you.

Guests:
Joshua Holland, Senior Writer and Editor at AlterNet

David Barsamian, Founder and Director of Alternative Radio

Anand Gopal, Writer and Journalist

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What do you want from Your Call?

On the next Your Call, YOU, listeners, will be our guests. Your Call is celebrating our 10th anniversary. We want to know: how do you think can we be the best show possible? Call or email in with your ideas on what we do well and what we could improve on. Are there topics you'd like to hear us cover? Angles or particular voices you'd be interested in hearing? Suggestions about our format? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. This is Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:

YOU, our listeners

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How are magazines surviving?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about changing trends in the magazine publishing world as the industry continues to be affected by the financial crisis and the proliferation of online and digital publishing. How are magazines adapting? We'll speak with editors of the Utne Reader, the Sun, and Bitch magazines. Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@Yourcallradio.org. What do you get from magazines that you don't get from other media? What's your favorite magazine? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Krista Bremer, an associate publisher at The Sun

Andi Zeisler, co-founder of Bitch magazine

David Schimke, Utne Reader's editor in chief

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Have you seen a great documentary lately?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the power of documentaries. The 9th Annual International Documentary Film Festival and the Arab Film Festival are in the Bay Area this month. We'll talk to filmmakers, film subjects, and festival organizers about the motivation behind their work. How do documentaries affect you? What do you love about them? What can they do that other film genres can't? Join us at 11 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How have documentaries changed over the years? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Zeina Daccache, director, 12 Angry Lebanese

Jeff Ross, founder/director of SF IndieFest

Gregg Marks, co-director of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

Frank Ferrante, subject of May I Be Frank? A Film about Sex, Drugs, and Transformation

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What do you want from Your Call?

On the next Your Call, we'll check in with you, our listeners, to find out what you love about the show and what you think could improve. Whether you've tuned in once or listen regularly, how could Your Call have a broader and deeper impact on the community? If you have guest or show ideas, questions, comments, or constructive critiques, join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What inspires you to participate? What holds you back? Now's your time to be heard. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
You!

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, the investigative news website Wikileaks revealed 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, including evidence of widespread civilian casualties, to the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Speigel. While some are calling it the biggest leak in intelligence history, others say the documents expose nothing new about the war. How did the news media cover the new information? And what is Wikileaks and how will it change investigative reporting? We'll also discuss the latest news on the BP disaster.

We'll be joined by The Guardian's Nick Davies, who reported extensively on the leaked documents, independent journalist Rick Rowley, who just returned from six weeks in Afghanistan, Time's Tim McGirk, and journalist Dahr Jamail, who is continuing to cover the disaster in the Gulf for IPS and others. Join the conversation live at 11am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Nick Davies, a reporter with The Guardian and bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media.

Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, author, and blogger who currently writes for the Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many other outlets. He authored Beyond the Green Zone; his stories have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent.

Richard Rowley, an independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who just returned from a six-week trip to Afghanistan where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine division in Marjah.

Tim McGirk, Time Magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll continue discussing coverage of the expanding oil disaster. Who is writing about vulnerable communities? We'll also discuss coverage of financial reform legislation and the G20 summit in Canada, which is costing Canadian taxpayers more than one billion dollars. We'll be joined by the Washington Independent's Anne Lowery, ColorLines' Brentin Mock and Toronto Star's Olivia Ward. Join us live at 11 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:
Olivia Ward, a foreign affairs writer for the Toronto Star

Brentin Mock, a New Orleans-based reporter who contributes regularly to TheRoot.com and ColorLines

Annie Lowery, an economic reporter with the Washington Independent


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Your Call 082709 What is the right response to hate speech in the media?

On the next Your Call we'll try to define the line between appropriate and inappropriate statements on the airwaves. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has called on the FCC to investigate hate speech in the media. What effect will that have? Email us at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. What exactly qualifies as hate speech? And when hateful words go viral online, do broadcast regulations still matter? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rory O'Connor in New York
Journalist, blogger, filmmaker and media critic. He's the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech and Talk Radio and is a contributing columnist to Alternet and MediaChannel. Rory's also the president of the media firm Globalvision Inc. and the author of the blog Media is a Plural.

James Rucker in Berkeley
Co-founder and executive director of Color of Change, an online activist organization that strives to strengthen the voices of African Americans. James has also served as director of Grassroots Mobilization for MoveOn.org.

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Your Call 041009 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the head of the Associated Press threatened to start charging Google, Yahoo and the Huffington Post for using AP stories. President Obama went to Turkey and Iraq, Iowa and Vermont legalized gay marriage, the 2009 baseball season began and the 2008 college basketball season drew to a close. We'll be joined by Robert Parry of Consortium News, Rekha Basu of the Des Moines Register, foreign policy analyst Gareth Porter and Dave Zirin, the first sports reporter for The Nation magazine. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rekha Basu in Des Moines
Columnist for the Des Moines Register

Dave Zirin in New York
First sports correspondent for The Nation Magazine and author of The People's History of Sports.

Robert Parry in Washington, DC
Founder and editor of Consortium News

Gareth Porter
Investigative journalist for nearly 40 years. He is author of Perils of Dominance.

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Your Call 030309 What do you want to hear from NPR during our media crisis?

What do you want to hear from NPR in the midst of media crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with NPR's Ombudsman, Alicia Shepard. Last December NPR announced the cancellation of Day to Day and News and Notes. It also laid off 64 people, and eliminated 21 other positions. How are the cutbacks going to impact NPR's programming? You can join the conversation by phone or by sending us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What are your questions or concerns? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alicia Shepard, National Public Radio's Ombudsman

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Your Call 020409 What's a biopic got that a documentary doesn't?

What's a biopic got that a documentary doesn't? And vice-versa? On the next Your Call we'll discuss the choices artists make when deciding to retell the past on film. Gus Van Sant decided to tell the story of Harvey Milk as a biopic rather than as a documentary -- other than getting to cast Sean Penn in the leading role, what's the advantage? Can they bend the truth more? Does original footage from a particular time and place have an impact that actors and sets never can? Is there a documentary you wish would be made into a biopic -- or one that never should be? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Robert Cary in Los Angeles
Director of the feature film Save Me, about the intertwined lives of three people struggling with homosexuality.

Dawn Logsdon in San Francisco
Director of the documentary Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, a celebration of the oldest black neighborhood in America.

Bill Banning in San Francisco
Runs the Roxie movie theater in the Mission since 1984

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Your Call 012009 How should your government and Your Call change?

It's Inauguration Day. What do you make of the changing of the guard? And how should we change accordingly? On the next Your Call, we want to hear from you. Every Your Call we've ever done has been under President Bush; as of noon on Tuesday, we will be covering a whole new administration. How do you reflect on the past eight years? What are your expectations of the next four? How should your media change now that the leadership has changed? And what do you want from Your Call? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

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Your Call 102008 The Power of Conversation

Does public dialogue change minds? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Ros Atkins, host of the BBC call-in show, World Have Your Say. Listeners from all over the globe engage in conversations about a variety of topics. How do people from different parts of the world react to important issues of the day? Does public dialogue change minds or at least open minds? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest: Ros Atkins, host of World Have Your Say

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Your Call 092408 A People's History of Sports

How do sports and politics intersect? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play. Sportswriter Zirin examines sports as a reflection of the political conflicts that shape American history. He profiles sports stars who have stoked the fires of war, corporate control, racism, sexism, and homophobia. What are the main differences between mainstream sports history and yours? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy.

Guest: Dave Zirin is the author of three books and a regular contributor to The Nation, SLAM, and the Los Angeles Times.

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Your Call 082908 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable – the day we applaud good reporting and scrutinize media bias. This week, the Democratic National Convention dominated the headlines. Fifteen thousand reporters were in Denver. How was coverage? Did you read about protests and corporate donors? We'll be joined by the Denver Post's Susan Green and Al Jazeera English's Richard Gizbert. What did the coverage look like overseas? With all eyes on the convention, what was missing from the front pages? It's Your Call at 11:00, with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Richard Gizbert, host of Listening Post, the media watch broadcast on Al Jazeera English

Susan Green, news columnist with the Denver Post

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Your Call 080808 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week is the one-year anniversary of the murder of Oakland reporter Chauncey Bailey. We'll speak with the Bay Guardian's Tim Redmond about the Chauncey Bailey Project. We'll also discuss coverage of Ron Suskind's new book, which reveals that the Bush administration engaged in a "disinformation campaign" by forging documents in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. What did you think of the coverage? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian

Nathan Guttman in Washington DC
Staff writer for the Forward

Eve Fairbanks in Washington DC
Associate editor of The New Republic.

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Your Call 061808 The New Blue Media

What explains the success of left wing media? On the next Your Call we speak with Theodore Hamm, author of The New Blue Media- How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics. Hamm says the new left media has grown in power and influence by adopting three strategies- satire, polemic and the activism. But is the popularity of Michael Moore, The Daily Show and Daily Kos dependent on an unpopular Bush Administration? Has the ground work been laid for continued influence if Obama takes the White House? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Theodore Hamm in San Francisco
The founding editor of The Brooklyn Rail. His first book, Rebel and a Cause, about the 1960 execution of San Quentin death row author Caryl Chessman, was published by the University of California Press in 2001. His new book is The New Blue Media: Progressive Politics and Culture in the Bush Years.

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Your Call 041408 Joe Burke and Alan Farley of KALW

Who are Joe Burke and Alan Farley? What makes them tick? On the next Your Call we speak with the voices of KALW, your local public radio, Joe "The Morning Guy Who Does the Almanac" Burke and Alan "He's Been Around for a Dog's Age" Farley. You've listened to them for years, maybe decades. What do you want to ask them? Now's your chance. It's Your Call with Rose, Alan and Joe.

Guests:

Joe Burke

Alan Farley

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