Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, It's our Friday media roundtable. This week, we'll mark the one-year anniversary of the BP Oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. How are the media keeping the story alive? This week also marks the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Who is connecting the ongoing nuclear disaster in Japan to what happened 25 years ago in Ukraine? We'll be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail, Left Turn's Jordan Flaherty and photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart. He spent two years in Chernobyl, chronicling the lives of workers there. 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:
Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist

Jordan Flaherty, a journalist and editor of Left Turn Magazine

Michael Forster Rothbart, a freelance photojournalist

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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 ongoing humanitarian and radiation disasters in Japan. We'll also talk about coverage of the US and EU decision to begin bombing Libya. Who's reporting on US companies based in Libya? We'll be joined by McClatchy's Kevin Hall, the Middle East Report's Chris Toesing, and veteran journalist Don Kirk joins us from Tokyo. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hall, McClatchy's economics reporter

Chris Toensing, Middle East Report and Information editor

Don Kirk, a veteran correspondent and noted author

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Who's profiting from nuclear power?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the economics of the nuclear power industry. President Obama sees nuclear power as an integral part of a "green" energy plan. And the US government continues to subsidize nuclear power from 13 percent to 98 percent of the value of the power produced, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. We know that anyone can suffer the consequences from nuclear disasters, but who reaps the riches from this industry? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Whose interest does nuclear power really benefit? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Michael Mariotte, executive director of Nuclear Information and Resource Service

Ellen Vancko, Nuclear Energy & Climate Change Project Manager with the Union of Concerned Scientists

Mike Papantonio, host of Ring of Fire Radio

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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 assault on Afghanistan's Helmand province, the one year anniversary of the stimulus package, and the $8 billion loan guarantee for the first nuclear power plant in 27 years. We'll be joined by Propublica's Michael Grabell, the San Francisco Chronicle's David Baker and independent journalist Aunohita Mojumdar joins us from Kabul.

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:
Michael Grabell covers transportation for ProPublica.

David R. Baker, staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle covering energy issues

Aunohita Mojumdar, freelance journalist based in Kabul

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Your Call 103008 The Future of Nuclear Power

Where does nuclear energy fit into our future? On the next Your Call we'll look at where Senators John McCain and Barack Obama stand on the future of nuclear. Many people have a vision of nuclear power frozen decades in the past by the disaster at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Has nuclear energy technology advanced as much as boosters say? Should nuclear compete in the market of ideas alongside coal, solar and wind, or is it a special case? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests: Jim Riccio in Washington
Greenpeace's Nuclear Policy Analyst. He has worked for the Nuclear Information Resource Service as well as the Critical Mass Energy Project at Public Citizen.

Michael Mariotte in Washington
Executive Director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service

Peter Schwartz in San Francisco
Chairman and cofounder of the Global Business Network. Previously headed scenario planning for Royal Dutch/Shell in London and directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International; he is the author of Inevitable Surprises and The Art of the Long View.

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