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Sally Kohn: Putting Public Broadcasting in Perspective
March 18, 2011
Republicans have NPR and PBS in their sights once again, and once again progressives and media reformers have to fight for every penny that public media gets. Just how many pennies is that, though? Sally Kohn of Movement Vision puts that funding in perspective in this video.
Leo Gerard, Paul Mason, Sally Kohn, and Ransoming Ray Davis
March 17, 2011
"Now we think not only us are going to have to review our sense of comfort. I am not very comfortable." says Leo Gerard, President of the United Steelworkers union. Gerard himself was once a union representative at a facility that mined and refined uranium, and he represents many workers in such dangerous conditions across the country today. The USW has long been part of the Blue-Green Alliance, creating a labor-environmentalist coalition, but stopped short of calling for an end to nuclear power--but will that change after Japan?
Philip Rizk, Eugene Jarecki on Reagan, and Al Jazeera
February 7, 2011
"The negotiations really are just a form of propaganda to the international community to give the regime some sort of cover for their desire to hold on to power," says Philip Rizk of talks between Mubarak and so-called opposition forces. He notes that scaremongering continues over the Muslim Brotherhood's role in the talks, but that the protesters that continue to occupy Tahrir Square are opposed to talks and mostly do not support the Brotherhood.
The F Word: Media Miss the Al Jazeera Story
February 7, 2011
One of the biggest stories of the past few weeks has been the story of Americans discovering Al-Jazeera English. It shouldn't have been so hard.
The F Word: Learning From Health Care Reform
March 23, 2010
So this is what I learned from the last weekend of the health care reform debate.
Health Care, Gary Younge, and Protesting Iraq
March 22, 2010
The House of Representatives, under Speaker Nancy Pelosi, passed historic health care reform late Sunday night. That's a fact. Also a fact is that the bill is far from perfect, and legislators from all sides will be working to shape the bill more to their liking. Progressives regret the lack of a public option, let alone single payer, and the use of women's reproductive choice as a political football in the negotiations--Obama was forced into an executive order reaffirming the Hyde Amendment's commitment not to use federal dollars for abortions.
Amy Goodman: Listening and Healing
November 17, 2009
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! joined Laura in the studio to talk about creating independent media in a corporate world, the responsibility of people in the U.S. to be aware and active in the world, and the broken health care system she faced down recently while dealing with her mother's terminal illness.
Sex, Lies and Sarah Palin, Amy Goodman, and Fighting Drones
November 16, 2009
Sarah Palin's book, Going Rogue: An American Life, comes out tomorrow, and the corporate media has been all Palin, all the time. We wonder just what it is about the former Alaskan governor that keeps people coming back for more. Is it her folksy ways, her sex appeal, her gender, or her willingness to completely disregard the advice of well-intentioned handlers?
The F Word: Taking Back the Public Airwaves
March 2, 2009
The era of the license to steal networks era may be ending. It's long past time for the era of public interest licensing to start. The new Federal Communications Commission has a chance to give some real scrutiny of who gets public license to broadcast. And let's hope they will.

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