Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll continue with our coverage of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the targeting of immigrants involved in oil clean up. We'll also talk about coverage of the Gaza-bound Flotilla and California election results. We'll be joined by investigative journalist, Max Blumenthal in Tel Aviv, Color Line's Brentin Mock, and journalist Joe Mathews. Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joe Mathews is a journalist and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times.

Max Blumenthal is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and contributor to outlets including The Nation, Al Jazeera English, and Salon.com.

Brentin Mock is a New Orleans-based reporter.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of the Gaza-bound flotilla attacked by Israeli commandos, the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- the oil is now close to Florida -- and the escalation of violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We'll be joined by Daily Beast's Rick Outzen and independent journalist Pratap Chatterjee. Join us live at 11 or send us and email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Rick Outzen, publisher and editor of Independent News, the alternative newsweekly for Northwest Florida

Pratap Chatterjee, an investigative journalist and progressive author.

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Will the Flotilla attack affect Israel?

How will the attack on the "Freedom Flotilla" affect Israel's relations with the world? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the implications of Israel's deadly raid on Turkish ships carrying international activists and humanitarian aid for Gaza. As many as 10 people on board the flotilla were killed and dozens more wounded; among them were Turkish and American nationals. Will this incident shift world opinion of Israel? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. What should the U.S. do to hold Israel accountable? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
George Bisharat, UC Hastings law professor
Neve Gordon, Ben Guiron University professor, author of Israel's Occupation
Miko Peled, Israeli peace activist living in San Diego
Peter Beinart, associate professor at City University of New York, author of The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris

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What will it take to end the siege on Gaza?

On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation with independent scholar Norman Finkelstein and Iraqi/British Rap artist Lowkey. Professor Finkelstein is out with a new book, This Time We Went Too Far - Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. We will also talk about American Radical, a new documentary about his lifelong activism on Palestine-Israel. What are ordinary citizens doing to end the occupation? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Norman Finkelstein, an independent scholar, author and activist
Lowkey, an Iraqi-British rap artist

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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 the healthcare summit, the three-week-long assault in Helmand province, NY Times and conflict of interest as well as the lack of coverage of Gaza. We'll be joined by Kabul-based journalist Anand Gopal, Electronic Intifada's Ali Abunimah and Congressional Quarterly's Adriel Bettelheim.

Where did you see the best reporting this week? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anand Gopal, reporting from Afghanistan for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal. His dispatches can be read at anandgopal.com.

Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a not-for-profit, independent online publication about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

Adriel Bettelheim, Congressional Quarterly's Managing Editor

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Your Call 022009 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable -- the day we connect you with reporters to discuss coverage of the week's news. This week we'll speak with Pratap Chatterjee, editor of Corpwatch and author of Halliburton's Army. Pratap just returned from nearly a year in Dubai reporting on Iraq contractors. We'll also speak with Paul Jay from the Real News Network about the stimulus and the aftermath of the Gaza assault. You can join us by phone or email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Paul Jay in San Francisco
Senior editor of the Real News Network, an independent online news source based in Toronto, Canada.

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Your Call 012909 What is life like for international aid workers?

What is life like for international aid workers? On the next Your Call we'll look at why anyone would choose to leave the comforts of home to comfort those in dire need. During her confirmation hearing, Secretary of State Clinton said that America would return to a foreign policy driven by defense, diplomacy and development. What was President Bush's legacy on foreign aid and what reforms are likely? In a globalized world riven by inequality and conflict, are aid workers the true heroes? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Cassandra Nelson in Gaza
Spokesperson and director of Multimedia Projects for Mercy Corps

John Main in San Francisco
Veteran foreign assistance worker. He organized the distribution of emergency supplies in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Azerbaijian for the ICRC. Work with UPS international logistics. Has been living in the US since 1996.

Steve Radelet in Washington DC
Senior fellow at the Center for Global Development

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Your Call 012309 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. This week we'll speak with Moises Naim, editor of Foreign Policy about the global coverage of the inauguration. We'll also speak with Jamal Dajani from Mosaic on LinkTV who is just back from two weeks covering the assault on Gaza. What else was going on while we watched the inaguration? Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Moises Nam in Washington DC
Editor of Foreign Policy, a sister publication of Slate and the Washington Post. Dr. Nam served as Venezuela's minister of trade and industry in the early 1990s;

Jamal Dajani in Berkeley
Senior Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV where he produces the program Mosaic, which translates and rebroadcasts Arabic language news broadcasts. He is also a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post;

George Curry in Suburban Washington
Syndicated columnist. From 2001 until 2007, he served as editor-in-chief of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a news service for the nation's Black newspapers. He was the executive editor of Emerge magazine and a reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

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Your Call 012209 What is Israel's End Game? What is Hamas'?

Now that the cease fire has begun, what is Israel's End Game? What is Hamas'? On the next Your Call we'll speak with Israeli and Palestinian analysts about the goals and state of mind of the two peoples. What did the Israeli people think they were trying accomplish? Were they trying to stop the rockets, intimidate the Palestinians, Iran or even the Obama administration? Did Hamas achieve their goals when they began the strategy of firing qassam rockets into Israel? Can we end the slaughter by understanding the motivations of all sides?

Guests:
Beshara Doumani in Berkeley
Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley specializing in Middle Eastern history. He is working on two books: a social history of the Palestinians, and a comparative history of women and the family in Palestine and Lebanon.

Nathan Guttman in Washington DC
Washington bureau chief for the Forward, and the former Washington correspondent for the Israeli dailies Ha'aretz and The Jerusalem Post. The Forward has been reporting in Yiddish and English on the Global Jewish Community for more than a century.

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Your Call 011609 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable where we hold American media accountable for getting us the news we need. For the final week of the Bush presidency we will speak with Lawrence Pintak in Cairo, the publisher & co-editor of Arab Media & Society; Kenneth Whyte, publisher and editor in chief of the Canadian news magazine Maclean's and Clara Jeffrey, co-editor of Mother Jones. Where did you see the best reporting this week and where did it fall short? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Clara Jeffery in San Francisco
Co-Editor of Mother Jones

Kenneth Whyte in San Francisco
Publisher and editor in chief of Maclean's, and author of The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst.

Lawrence Pintak in Cairo
Director of the Adham Center for Journalism Training and Research at The American University in Cairo and publisher & co-editor of Arab Media & Society. For 30 years he has covered the Middle East, for the San Francisco Chronicle and then later for ABC News. He joins us from Cairo, Egypt.

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Your Call 010209 Media Roundtable

In an otherwise quiet news week, Israeli airstrikes have killed hundreds of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and made headlines worldwide. How can journalists tell this story without doing the bidding of Israel or Hamas? Consumer confidence hit an all-time low this week -- how are economic hard times hitting the not-for-profit news media? And all kinds of news media this week were filled with end-of-year rundowns and top ten lists -- was there one of them you found particularly enlightening? Or maddening? Join the conversation with Sandip Roy.

Guests: Blake Hounshell, online editor for Foreign Policy magazine.

Eric Beauchemin, reporter for Radio Netherlands.

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Your Call 120908 Crisis in Gaza

What is the International Community doing to help the people of Gaza? On the next Your Call, we'll take a look at the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has warned that its warehouses in Gaza will be totally empty in two or three days if Israel does not open the crossings to allow the entry of humanitarian supplies. Eighty percent of the population depends on humanitarian aid. What is daily life like for people in Gaza? Who is helping? And who has access to Gaza? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Paul LaRudee, the Northern California head of the International Solidarity Movement

Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights to the Palestinian Occupied territories

Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, Irish Nobel Peace laureate and co-founder of the Community of Peace People

Karen Abu Zayed, the commissioner general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza

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Your Call 030708 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week the Gaza Strip descended again into violence with more than a hundred dead; where does the Israel-Palestine conflict fit on the priorities list of America's editors? We'll talk with Jamal Dajani of Mosaic. We'll also speak with Suzanne Goldenberg who's been covering Hillary Clinton for the Guardian and take your calls about the best reporting this week. On the next Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Tim Redmond in San Francisco
Executive Editor of the San Francisco Bay Guardian

Suzanne Goldenberg
political reporter for the The Guardian (UK)

Jamal Dajani in Berkeley
Director of Middle Eastern Programming at Link TV.

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Your Call 021508 Friday Media Roundtable

On the Next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week we'll speak with Anand Naidoo from Al Jazeera English about global coverage of the American primary and American coverage, or lack of coverage, of the attacks and counterattacks in walled in Gaza. We'll also speak to Aamer Madhani of the Chicago Tribune about coverage of Guantanamo and torturer's justice and Becky O'Malley, publisher of the Berkeley Daily Planet about being the life cycle of an online and on-air media firestorm. What was the best reporting you saw this week? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Anand Naidoo in Washington DC
Anchor and correspondent for Al-Jazeera English

Aamer Madhani
Staff writer in Washington DC where he covers national security and defense issues

Becky O'Malley in San Francisco
Publisher of the Berkeley Daily Planet.

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Your Call 012508 Friday Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it’s our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, Arab Media & Society’s Lawrence Pintak joins us from Cairo to discuss coverage of the explosions that brought a sudden end to the blockade on Gaza. Amy Gluckman of Dollars and Sense joins us to talk about what is being left out of economic coverage. And the Black Agenda Report’s Glenn Ford gives us his take on how race is being covered in the lead up to the South Carolina primary. Where did you find solid reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar.

Guest:
Lawrence Pintak,
editor and co-publisher of Arab Media & Society,

Amy Gluckman
co-editor of Dollars and Sense,

Glen Ford
editor of the Black Agenda Report.

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Your Call 112807 What Would Give the Palestinians Leverage?

What would give Palestinians leverage in peace talks? On the next Your Call we talk about what components are needed for a peace process to feel optimistic about. Right now Palestinians face a nuclear power from behind blockaded borders, split between two parties engaged in low grade civil war. Mahmoud Abbas is there as president of Palestine, but who does he represent? Is American support necessary for Palestinian success, or could another coalition be cobbled together? What would a peace process you had faith in need? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi
Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and former Minister of Communication for the Palestinian Authority. 
 
Amjad Shawa,
Palestinian NGO Network coordinator for Gaza
 
Lamia Matta
Middle East International Advocacy Director at the International Crisis Group.

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