Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of rising oil prices and oil speculation on Wall Street. We'll also talk about the media blackout in Syria as the government's violent crack down continues. We'll be joined by McClatchy's Kevin Hall, Propublica's Jake Bernstein and independent journalist Lamis Andoni joins us from Amman, Jordan. 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:
Kevin Hall, economic reporter with McClatchy

Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica.

Lamis Andoni, an independent journalist, analyst and commentator on Middle Eastern and Palestinian affairs.

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What are the root causes of our current economic crisis?

On the next Your Call, we'll talk to journalist Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street. Robert says we are too eager to blame the Bush administration, because the collapse happened on his watch. But how did free markets and deregulation from earlier administrations set the stage for the crisis? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What's needed to fix the economy now? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guest:
Robert Scheer, author of The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

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Will Main Street Replace Wall Street?

On the next Your Call, we continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by speaking with David Korten about the second edition of his book, Agenda for a New Economy. Nearly two years after the economic meltdown, joblessness and foreclosures are still endemic, Wall Street executives are once again getting massive bonuses, and each day brings scandalous new revelations of Wall Street corruption. What will it take to make the fundamental policy changes desperately needed to achieve real recovery? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. David Korten is a trained economist, chair of the board of Yes! Magazine, and a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living economies. He is out with an expanded 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth.

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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 upcoming general election in Great Britain, the human and environmental cost of the oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico and the debate about Wall Street on Capitol Hill. And what was done well? We'll be joined by Propublica's Jake Bernstein, Huffington Post's Marcus Baram and Globe and Mail London Bureau chief's Doug Saunders.

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:
Jake Bernstein, author, and an investigative reporter for ProPublica.
Marcus Baram, a news editor at the Huffington Post.
Doug Saunders, the chief of the Globe and Mail's London-based European Bureau.

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Could Financial Reform Curb Wall Street?

Will the financial reform plan that's currently on the table prevent another economic crisis? On the next Your Call, we'll continue our Agenda for a New Economy series by looking at financial reform. Will it fundamentally change the way Wall Street operates? Will it end bank bailouts? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What laws do you think should be put in place to protect citizens? Is it even possible to get a good bill with Wall Street and Washington so closely aligned? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Kevin Hall--National Economics Correspondent for McClatchy newspapers

Rob Johnson--Director of the Project on Global Finance at the Roosevelt Institute

Mary Bottari--Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and editor of the www.BanksterUSA.org site for bank-busting activists

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