Your Call 020808 Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call it's our Friday media roundtable when we discuss how the media covered the news. This week we'll be talking about the stories you might have missed while all eyes were on Super Tuesday. Juan Cole, editor of Informed Comment will tell us what we missed in Iraq and who is still prominently placing stories on the occupation. We'll also be joined by a reporter in Louisiana talking about New Orleans's role in their coming primary. What was the best reported story you saw this week? It's Your Call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Betsy Reed in New York
Executive editor of The Nation. She is the editor of Unnatural Disaster: The Nation on Hurricane Katrina, a collection of the magazine's coverage of the storm and its aftermath

Peter Waldman in San Francisco
Senior Writer with Conde Nast Portfolio

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Your Call 020608 Pundit for a Day

What do yesterday's election results mean for California? On the next Your Call you play pundit for a day and give us your take on the election results. On Tuesday's Your Call we asked you to make your best pitch for your candidate, now make your best analysis. Who turned out and what does it tell us about the mood of the state? Which candidates surprised your expectations? What do you make of California's experiment in election relevance? It's Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.

Guests:
Jonathan Wilcox in Los Angeles
Republican analyst and Adjunct Professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication

Lakshmi Chaudhry in San Francisco
Staff writer for the Nation.

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Your Call 020508 Who are you voting for and why? How did you decide?

Who are you voting for on "Super Tuesday"? On the next Your Call, we want to hear from you. It's been decades since California voters actually have had a say in a closely contested presidential primary. According to pollsters, the symbolic nature of who carries California will ring throughout the nation. Voter turnout is expected to be huge. 5.5 million requested absentee ballots. That's a record! 20 percent are still undecided, so whom are you voting for and how did you decide? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle reporter
Possible guest from Univision (to be confirmed)

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