Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the Supreme Court ruling on California's overcrowded prisons and Sacramento Bee's ongoing investigation of the California National Guard. We'll also talk about continuing mass protests in Spain. We'll be joined by McClatchy's Mike Doyle, Sacramento Bee's Charles Piller and Iberosphere's Guy Hedgecoe joins us from Madrid. Join us live at 10 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:
Mike Doyle covers the U.S. Supreme Court for McClatchy

Charles Piller, investigative reporter with Sacramento Bee

Guy Hedgecoe, co-editor of Iberosphere.com, a website that offers news, comment, and analysis on Spain and Portugal

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What is behind the ban on the niqab in France?

On the next Your Call, we’ll discuss France's official ban on the niqab--the part of a burqa that covers a woman's face except for her eyes. Out of five million Muslims in France, less than 2,000 women actually wear it. So why has the ban created such a heated debate? What’s behind this law? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. And what are the larger issues at stake for France and other Western liberal societies? It’s Your Call with Hana Baba and you.

Guests:
Zahra Billoo, executive director for the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Hilal Elver, professor of comparative law, international human rights, and environmental law and co-Director of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara.

Marnia Lazreg is professor of sociology at Hunter College in New York. Originally from Algeria, she has lectured extensively at home and around the world on development, gender, and the geopolitics of Islam. She is author of Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. In addition to gender and Islam, she researches French colonial history and empire studies; torture and identity; and postmodernist theory. She joins us by phone from New York.

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What lessons do the protests in Europe have for the U.S.?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the civil unrest across western Europe in response to austerity measures. Fees for public education in the U.K. are going up, retirement pensions in France are being cut, unemployment for Italy's young population is at a record high. So how will these demonstrations, whether violent or peaceful, affect economic policies in Europe? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. How does this approach compare with response to the debt crisis in the U.S.? It's Your Call, with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Laurie Penny, reporter for New Statesmen

Costas Panayotakis, assistant professor of social science at New York City College of Technology

Eric Reguly, European business correspondent for The Globe and Mail

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll discuss coverage of US elections. What role did the media play in shaping the conversation about the elections? Also we'll talk about rise of right wing political parties in Europe. We'll be joined by The Guardian's Khaled Diab, Independent journalist Davey D and The Huffington Post's Arthur Delaney. Where did you see the best reporting this week? 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:
Arthur Delaney, reporter with Huffington Post

Khaled Diab, a journalist and writer who works in the Belgian and EU capital Brussels. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and also freelances with other publications.

Davey D, a nationally recognized journalist, syndicated talk show host and radio programmer with Hard Knock Radio on KPFA

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What Can We Learn from Europe?

On the next Your Call, we explore economic comparisons and contrasts between Europe and the United States. Both the American and European economies were sent reeling during the 2008 crisis. While our government is now busy cutting funding for a wide array of social programs, Europeans are still investing into health care, child care, education, affordable housing, and more. Why such different responses?

Join us live at 11 a.m. or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. What lessons do you think Europe has to offer us?

Guests:
Steven Hill is a political writer and program director at the New America Foundation. His new book is Europe's Promise: Why the European Way Is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age.

Eric Reguly is The Globe and Mail's European business correspondent, based in Rome.

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Your Call 082809 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. We'll talk about the coverage of Teddy Kennedy's death, the release of a less redacted torture memo and Binyamin Netanyahu's visit trip to Europe. 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 Ben Temchine and you.

Guests:
Peter Waldman in San Francisco
Former editor at the Wall Street Journal and the Conde Nast Business magazine, Portfolio.

Danny Schechter in NY
Independent author, producer and media critic. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, and his writing is collected at the News Dissector blog. He is the producer and director of many films including In Debt We Trust and WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception.

Mort Rosenblum in Paris
Long time AP foreign correspondent, he reported from 200 countries in his career, several of which no longer exist. He is the author of Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival. He is editor of the news, commentary and photography quarterly Dispatches.

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Your Call 081808 Assessing the Georgia-Russian War

What's really happening in Georgia? On the next Your Call, we'll dig beneath the headlines with the New York Times' James Traub, CIA critic Mel Goodman, and the Independent Institute's Ivan Eland. The United States sent advisers to build up the Georgian military, including an exercise last month with more than 1,000 American troops and Israel has sold weapons to Georgia. What is this conflict about? Is it about oil? Disputed territory? Why are the U.S. and Israel interfering in Russia's backyard? It's Your Call, Monday at 11, with me, Rose Aguilar.

Guests:
Mel Goodman
Senior fellow and director of the national security program at the Center for International Policy. He is former professor of international security studies and chairman of the international relations department at the National War College. He was division chief and senior analyst at the CIA's Office of Soviet Affairs from 1976 to 1986. He is author Failure of Intelligence: The Decline and Fall of the CIA and The Wars of Edvard Shevardnadze.

James Traub in New York
Contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he has worked since 1998. On August 10th he wrote the Week in Review article about the Georgia-Russia war, entitled, "Battle Cry- Taunting the Bear." James Traub is author of the forthoming book, The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did).

Ivan Eland in Washington DC
Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace & Liberty at The Independent Institute. He spent 15 years working for Congress on national security issues, including stints as an investigator for the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Principal Defense Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office. His book The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed has just been updated and re-released.

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