How has the 'Citizens United' decision affected our politics?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about the Citizens United case. January 21 is the one year anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that allowed unfettered election campaign contributions by corporations and unions. Did it make an impact on last year's political campaigns? And how will it continue to alter the future of American politics? Join us live at 10 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Does the new law give corporations too much power in politics? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Peter Stone, journalist for the Center for Public Integrity

John Bonifaz, co-founder and director of Free Speech for People

Wendy Kaminer, a lawyer, writer, social critic

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What is the power of a photo?

On the next Your Call we'll talk about photography as social commentary. The Time Magazine cover portrait of an Afghan girl with a mutilated face has been controversial -- especially paired with its caption. How do photographs enhance, alter, or manipulate the "news"? Or vice versa? Do photographs carry more inherent "truth" than words or can they also be spun? Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. If you enjoy photography for art, do you also see it as social commentary? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Steve McCurry, world-renowned photojournalist

Ken Light, social documentary photographer; author of Witness In Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers; adjunct professor and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley

Daisy Hernandez, former editor of ColorLines

Trevor Paglen, artist, writer, and experimental geographer; author of Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, the investigative news website Wikileaks revealed 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, including evidence of widespread civilian casualties, to the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Speigel. While some are calling it the biggest leak in intelligence history, others say the documents expose nothing new about the war. How did the news media cover the new information? And what is Wikileaks and how will it change investigative reporting? We'll also discuss the latest news on the BP disaster.

We'll be joined by The Guardian's Nick Davies, who reported extensively on the leaked documents, independent journalist Rick Rowley, who just returned from six weeks in Afghanistan, Time's Tim McGirk, and journalist Dahr Jamail, who is continuing to cover the disaster in the Gulf for IPS and others. Join the conversation live at 11am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.

Guests:
Nick Davies, a reporter with The Guardian and bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media.

Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, author, and blogger who currently writes for the Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many other outlets. He authored Beyond the Green Zone; his stories have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent.

Richard Rowley, an independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who just returned from a six-week trip to Afghanistan where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine division in Marjah.

Tim McGirk, Time Magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief

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Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of President Hamid Karzai's 4-day visit to Washington, the role of money in politics and the ever-growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We'll be joined by Propublica's Marian Wang, National Journal's Peter Stone and Guardian's Jonathan Steele. 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:
Marian Wang, ProPublica's reporter-blogger.

Peter H. Stone, a journalist covering lobbying and campaign finance issues for National Journal.

Jonathan Steele, Guardian's Senior Foreign Correspondent for the Guardian.

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