Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of President Obama's State of the Union address, Haiti and the London summit about negotiations with Taliban. We'll be joined by McClatchy's Nancy Youssef, Washington Monthly's Charles Homans and veteran investigative journalist Mark Danner. What did you see this week that grabbed your attention? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or call us live at 11:00. It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Mark Danner, a writer and reporter who for 25 years has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict.

Nancy A. Youssef, Pentagon correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

Charles Homans, an editor at the Washington Monthly.

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What's the State of the Obama Coalition?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about President Obama's first State of the Union address. If you voted for or actually hit the streets for Obama in the 2008 election, are you still with him? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Which part of your agenda do you see him having moved on in his first year in office? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Tammy Johnson, director of Strategic Partnerships for the Applied Research Center

Tomas Garduño, the statewide organizer for the SouthWest Organizing Project, a non-partisan, non-profit group in New Mexico

Joe Szakos, executive director of Virginia Organizing Project

Sasha Abramsky, journalist, author and a fellow at the New York City-based think tank Demos

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How Can We Prevent Veteran Suicide?

Why are suicides among vets and active members of the military spiking? The Dept. of Veterans Affairs says that eighteen vets commit suicide everyday and the numbers among youngest veterans are up sharply over recent years. The VA has hired thousands of new mental health professionals--are they making a difference? And what role do communities need to play in supporting returning soldiers, even if they opposed the war?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we prevent veteran suicide? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Amy Fairweather, policy director for Swords to Plowshares and director of the Iraq Veteran Project and the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.

Darryl Silva, clinical coordinator of mental health services at the VA Palo Alto.

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What's the True Price of Cheap?

America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low prices and bargains, but at what cost? On the next Your Call, we'll air a conversation Rose Aguilar had with Ellen Ruppel Shell about her new book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. What effect does our love of bargains really have on product quality, the environment, wages, and international trade? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Ellen Ruppel Shell, a journalist, correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, and professor of science journalism at Boston University.

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What Should Banks Do for Us?

We the taxpayers bailed them out--so what should banks do for us? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about President Obama's proposed limits on the size and scope of banks. Would new regulation help consumers and homeowners? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Is the President right to curb the power of the banks? It's Your Call with Hanna Baba and you.

Guests:
William Black, a former senior bank regulator, now associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). He writes for New Deal 2.0.

Nomi Prins, a former managing director at Goldman Sachs. She is a senior fellow at Demos.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of Haiti, the future of health care reform after the special election in Massachusetts and President Obama's first year in office. We'll be joined by Tina Susman of the L.A. Times who is just back from Haiti, The Nation's John Nichols and host Robert McChesney of the "Media Matters" weekly radio program. What grabbed your attention this week?

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 Holly Kernan and you.

Guests:
John Nichols, a writer with The Nation and an editor at the Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin

Robert McChesney, professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and host of "Media Matters" weekly radio program

Tina Susman, staff writer with L.A. Times

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Should America be Therapist to the World?

Has American Pyschology been exported? We'll talk with Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Does our approach to mental health make sense outside the context of the U.S.? Are we dominating the understanding of the mind? And what do the stories of psychotherapy gone wrong abroad tell us?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Has the American Psyche been exported? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Ethan Watters, author Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche

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How did Angel Island Change America?

One hundred years after the opening of the U.S. Immigration Station at Angel Island, we look at the history of its opening and the people who came through its gates. How does the story of immigrants in the U.S. look different through the stories of Angel Island than those of Ellis Island? What happened at Angel Island and how did it shape California, and the country? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Eddie Wong, executive director of the Angel island Immigration Station Foundation
Judy Young, professor of American Studies at UC Santa Cruz and author of Island: Poetry and history of Chinese immigrants on Angel Island
Casey Lee, who has lived on Angel Island for the past nine years working as an interpreter

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Why is America's Justice System Failing?

On the next Your Call, we'll air a conversation Rose Aguilar had with Amy Bach, author of Ordinary Injustice: How America Holds Court, a sweeping investigation that reveals a judicial process so deeply compromised that it constitutes a menace to the people it is designed to serve. What needs to be done to fix the system? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Amy Bach, a member of the New York bar, has written on law for The Nation, The American Lawyer, and New York magazine.

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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 healthcare debate, the rise of casualty numbers in Afghanistan, and the budget row in California. We'll be joined by Al Jazeera's Hashem Ahelbarra, Michael Rothfeld of LA Times, and NPR healthcare reporter Julie Rovner. 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? It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Hashem Ahelbarra, reporter with Al Jazeera International
Michael Rothfeld, Los Angeles Times staff writer
Julie Rovner, a health policy journalist with NPR

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What's the Power of Graphic Journalism?

How can the craft of graphic novelists illuminate politics and history? Join us for conversation with Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza and John Hogan of the Graphic Novel Reporter live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What can we learn from graphic journalism? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Joe Sacco, author of Footnotes in Gaza

John Hogan, editor of the Graphic Novel Reporter

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What Happens When the War on Terror Comes to You?

What happens when the focus of the war on terror turns to your country? Yemen, nearly unknown to most Americans, is now headline news. How does that sudden focus affect the way Yemenis and their country are perceived? What are we learning, and what's being missed? Got questions about Yemen that have nothing to do with Al Qaeda? Join the conversation live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. What happens when the War on Terror turns to your country? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Dr. Sheila Carapico, professor of political science and international studies at the University of Richmond

Charles Schmitz, of the American Institute for Yemeni studies

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What Can Polar Bears Tell Us?

What does the rapidly transforming world of the polar bear tell us about the state of the earth? On the next Your Call, we'll air a conversation Rose Aguilar had with Richard Ellis, author of On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of polar bears has shrunk by half. Today they number just 22,000. What can we do to safeguard their future? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Richard Ellis, one of America's leading marine conservationists, is generally recognized as the foremost painter of marine natural history subjects in the world.

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Should we Save or Spend?

In a recession, what's the right way to manage your financial resources? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Chris Farrell, author of The New Frugality. What's the difference between being cheap and being frugal? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are Americans ready to adjust their spending and save for the long-term? And how can government and communities support more sane personal finance? It's Your Call, with guest host Hanna Baba, and you.

Guest:
Chris Farrell, economics editor for American Public Media's Marketplace Money program on public radio.

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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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Why is Ramparts Magazine So Important?

How significant is the short-lived Ramparts magazine to journalism today? On the next Your Call, we'll air a conversation Rose Aguilar recently had with Peter Richardson, the author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. Richardson tells the largely untold story of this influential magazine, which achieved many firsts. It's a pre-taped Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Peter Richardson, editorial director at PoliPointPress.

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When is Dissent Hip?

What is the relationship today between pop-culture, counterculture and dissent? What is the counterculture that sells media now? And can activists reclaim the counterculture that now permeates the mainstream?

Join the conversation live at 11 a.m. or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. When is dissent hip? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy, and you.

Guests:
Douglas Haddow, Adbusters Magazine
Dan Sinker, Punk Planet
Davey D, journalist and hip-hop historian

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How Do We Want to Live with Pot?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the questions raised by the November ballot measure that could legalize and tax marijuana in California. Where and why should people be able to use it? How should it be marketed, sold and taxed? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should we tell the kids?

It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Mason Tvert, the executive director and co-founder Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), a Voter Education Fund, and a national marijuana policy reform organization based in Denver, Colorado.

Paul Armentano, the deputy director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).

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Can Economics and Politics Promote the Things We Truly Value?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with Raj Patel, the author of The Value of Nothing: How to reshape market society and redefine democracy. Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one. How do we need to re-think our economic mode to create a better society and political system? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How can we learn from other social justice movements around the world?

It's Your Call with Matt Martin and you.

Guest:
Raj Patel, a writer, activist, and academic. He is currently a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, a researcher at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a fellow at The Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First.

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