Thursday, June 12, 2008

Your Call 061308 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it is our Friday Media Roundtable where we call the nation's media to account for the way the news of the week was covered. This week, Bush Administration efforts to ram through a status of forces agreement with the Iraqi government foundered over disagreements about independent contractors and permanent bases. Articles of impeachment were read out on the floor of Congress and a Senate effort to regulate CO2 emissions fell victim to the 75th Republican filibuster this session. Where did you get the context to understand these events? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Fariba Nawa in San Francisco
Award-winning Afghan-American journalist who has written for the Sunday Times of London, Mother Jones, The Village Voice, and The Christian Science Monitor.

Gail Chaddock in Washington D.C.
Gail Chaddock is the Congressional correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor.

Jeremy Scahill in San Francisco
Polk Award-winning investigative journalist, contributor to The Nation and author of the just updated Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable