Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss media coverage of Wall Street and banking crisis. We'll also talk about the massive protests and general strike in Greece. We'll be joined by Propublica's Jake Bernstein, McClatchy's Kevin Hall and Globe and Mail's Eric Reguly joins us from Athens. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

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Guests:
Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica

Kevin Hall, economic national correspondent with McClatchy

Eric Reguly, Globe and Mail European Business Correspondent

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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 protests in DC to Stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. We'll also discuss the challenges journalists face in Libya. We'll be joined by Center for Investigative Reporting's Mark Schapiro, Mother Jones environment reporter Kate Sheppard and Guardian's Africa correspondent David Smith. 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:
Mark Schapiro, the senior correspondent with the Center for Investigative Reporting

Kate Sheppard, covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones' Washington bureau

David Smith, the Guardian's Africa correspondent

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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 debt ceiling debate and President Obama's decision to remove Elizabeth Warren's nomination to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. We'll also discuss the current situation in Libya. We'll be joined by Alternet's Joshua Holland, ProPublica's Jake Bernstein and the Globe and Mail's Doug Saunders. 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:
Jake Bernstein, a business and financial reporter for ProPublica.

Joshua Holland, an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.

Doug Saunders, the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail and author of Arrival City.

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll continue our coverage of the ongoing uprising against the Libyan government. We'll also talk about the lack of media coverage of the photos of American soldiers posing with dead Afghan civilians. We'll be joined by veteran journalist Mark Danner, independent journalist Justine Sharrock, and Nicolas Pelham who is reporting for the NY Review of Books from Benghazi, Libya. Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Nicolas Pelham, a former correspondent for The Economist and the author of The New Muslim Order, about the region's Shia. He is currently reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

Justine Sharrock, a former Mother Jones staffer. Her most recent book is Tortured: How Our Cowardly Leaders Abused Prisoners, American Soldiers, and Everything We're Fighting For.

Mark Danner, a journalist who has written about foreign affairs and American politics for more than two decades. He the author of Stripping Bare the Body -Politics Violence War.

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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 ongoing humanitarian and radiation disasters in Japan. We'll also talk about coverage of the US and EU decision to begin bombing Libya. Who's reporting on US companies based in Libya? We'll be joined by McClatchy's Kevin Hall, the Middle East Report's Chris Toesing, and veteran journalist Don Kirk joins us from Tokyo. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Kevin Hall, McClatchy's economics reporter

Chris Toensing, Middle East Report and Information editor

Don Kirk, a veteran correspondent and noted author

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What do you think about Obama bombing Libya?

What do you think of the Obama administration's decision to begin bombing Libya? On the next Your Call, we'll talk about the unfolding news in Libya. US and European leaders declared a no-fly zone over Libya on Sunday after two days of strikes. How should the US and international community respond? Join us at 10 or send an email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Does military action in Libya set a precedent of attacking countries where the leadership does not favor the US? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Dr. Ali Abdullatif Ahmida, scholar on modern Libya and professor of political science at the University of New England

Dr. Mansour El-Kikhia, exiled Libyan opposition leader and professor of political science at the University of Texas San Antonio

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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 financial crisis and find out why no one has been held accountable. We'll also talk about coverage of private contractors and the revolutionary uprising in Libya. We'll be joined by investigative journalist Tim Shorrock, Propublica's Jake Bernstein and the Guardian's Martin Chulov will join us from Benghazi, Libya. Join us live at 10 and 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:
Tim Shorrock, an investigative journalist and author of Spies For Hire: The Secret World of Outsourced Intelligence.

Jake Bernstein, journalist with Propublica.

Martin Chulov, The Guardian's Iraq correspondent. He is currently reporting from Benghazi, Libya.

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