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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Friday, December 2, 2011
Media Roundtable
Friday, February 18, 2011
Media Roundtable
Thursday, June 10, 2010
What's the state of Iran's democracy movement?
What's the state of Iran's democracy movement? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about what's happening in Iran one year after the disputed presidential election and massive street protests. According to Amnesty International, a widening crackdown on dissent has left many journalists and activists in prisons. Some have been executed. What's left of the democracy movement?
Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What is the appropriate role of the international community and foreign activists in supporting democratic change in Iran? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Mansour Farhang, professor of International relations at Bennigton College
Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul
Sahar Sajadi, a women's right activist
Ali Abdollahi, a Hip Hop artist with the revolution of mind
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Friday, May 21, 2010
Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we continue with our coverage of the expanding oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, US plans to pursue UN sanctions against Iran, and Midterm Election Primaries. We'll be joined by Huffington Post's Marcus Baram, freelance journalist Reese Erlich and The American Independent News Network's editor John Amick.
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 Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
Marcus Baram, a news editor at the Huffington Post
Reese Erlich, an investigative reporter, and broadcast journalist
John Amick, an editor with The American Independent News Network
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Media Roundtable
On this week's Friday Media Roundtable, we're discussing coverage of the botched airline bombing. What is missing from the news? And as Iran's media crackdown continues, how do journalists report on the opposition movement there? We'll be joined by Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi, Dafna Linzer of ProPublica and Center for Investigative Reporting's Robert Rosenthal. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting?
Join us live at 11 a.m. or send us your comments and questions to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did the media fall short? It's Your Call with Holly Kernan and you.
Guests:
Robert Rosenthal, executive director of Center for Investigative Reporting
Dafna Linzer, senior reporter with ProPublica, covering intelligence and nonproliferation
Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal, based in Beirut, Lebanon
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
What's the State of the Opposition in Iran?
On the next Your Call, we will have a conversation about the ongoing democracy actions in Iran. During recent Student Day protests, more than 200 people were arrested and many beaten. What are their demands? Join us live at 11 or drop us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How is Iran's protest movement impacting the rest of the region? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
Farideh Farhi, an independent scholar and affiliate, Graduate Faculty at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Kaveh Ehsani, assistant professor of international studies at DePaul University
Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com. He writes about art and culture for different publications.
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Friday, November 6, 2009
Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of midterm elections, the investigation into Goldman Sachs's secret bets against the housing market and the anti-government protests in Iran on the 30th anniversary of the siege of the U.S. embassy. We'll be joined by The Nation's John Nichols, McClatchy's Greg Gordon, and The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi. Did a story stand out for you because of its reporting? You can join us live at 11 or drop 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:
John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine
Farnaz Fassihi, the deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal
Greg Gordon, an investigative reporter with McClatchy Newspapers
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Friday, October 2, 2009
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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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Your Call 072209 What is the state of the protest in Iran?
What is the state of the protest in Iran? On the next Your Call we will discuss this Saturday's demonstration in support of the Iranian opposition at San Francisco City Hall - a demonstration that some groups on the left have decided to boycott. Is the battle in Iran now just a fight amongst the elite for power and money, or is there a grassroots demand for justice driving change? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. Can the American people play a positive role in Iran despite our government's long history of meddling? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Guests:
Shahram Aghamir in San Francisco
Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA
Kaveh Ehsani in Chicago
Assistant professor of International Studies at Depaul University and a member of the editorial boards of Middle East Report and the Tehran-based Goft-o-gu (Dialogue).
Reese Erlich in Oakland
Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and Peabody-award winning journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. Erlich is co-author of Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn't Tell You and his latest book Dateline Havana: The Real Story of US Policy and the Future of Cuba was published this year. Reese is just back from a trip to Iran.
Hadi Ghaemi in New York
Spokesperson for United 4 Iran, the organizers of Saturday's rallies. The rally in San Francisco will be from noon to 4 p.m this weekend.
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Your Call 071009 Media Roundtable
On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week the President was in Moscow, Italy and Ghana; hundreds of Uighurs in Western China were dead or in jail after protests and Al Franken was sworn in as senator. We'll be joined by James Fallows of The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal's Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut and McClatchy's Tom Lasseter in Moscow. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. 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:
Tom Lasseter in Moscow
The Moscow Bureau Chief for the McClatchy papers, and formerly the Baghdad Correspondent for Knight Ridder before they were absorbed by McClatchy. Tom was the lead reporter for McClatchy's five-part series detailing the U.S.'s treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan. Tom recently finished a series that exposed the causes behind the explosion in Afghan heroin production.
James Fallows in DC
National Correspondent for The Atlantic. Fallows has written nine books. National Defense won the National Book Award in 1981. His most recent book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China has just been published and is a record of his time living in and reporting from China.
Farnaz Fassihi in Beirut
Deputy bureau chief of Middle East and Africa for The Wall Street Journal and the author of Waiting for An Ordinary Day, a memoir of her four years covering the Iraq war. Ms. Fassihi was born in the United States and grew up in Tehran, Iran and Portland, Oregon.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Your Call 062609 Media RoundTable
On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable where we bring in reporters from the mainstream, alternative and international press to discuss the week in American media. This week the Iranian government violently quelled protests, President Obama held a news conference and the Washington Post fired columnist Dan Froomkin. We'll be joined by Glen Greenwald of Salon and Dave Roberts of Grist. Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 a.m. 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:
Dave Roberts in Seattle
Staff writer for the environmental online magazine Grist
Glenn Greenwald in Brazil
Columnist for Salon
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Your Call 062509 What has changed in Iran?
What has changed in Iran? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the disputed presidential election in Iran and how protesters have used social media in their protests. What are the protesters' demands? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or join us live at 11 am. How should organizers and citizens use social media? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Janet Afary, a professor of Religious Studies and Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara.
Kaveh Ehsani, an assistant professor of International Studies at DePaul University and a member of the editorial boards of Middle East Report and the Tehran-based Goft-o-gu (Dialogue).
Shahram Aghamir, Bay Area based activist and producer of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa on KPFA
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