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Dean Baker: Who Deserves Sympathy?
September 21, 2010"Poverty is a one-day event, we get a report released and we're going to talk about poverty, but every day we hear what the stock market does," says Dean Baker, GRITtv economics correspondent. The problem with that kind of coverage, Baker notes, is that "many more people will experience poverty than will strike it rich in the stock market."Dean Baker, Rebuilding the City, and Anne Elizabeth Moore
September 20, 2010"Poverty is a one-day event, we get a report released and we're going to talk about poverty, but every day we hear what the stock market does," says Dean Baker, GRITtv economics correspondent. The problem with that kind of coverage, Baker notes, is that "many more people will experience poverty than will strike it rich in the stock market." Millions of Americans experience poverty not as a one-day affair, but as a constant, grinding force in their lives.Demystifying the Media: Joel Silberman
December 11, 2009We peel back the curtain a bit with Joel Silberman, strategic communications consultant/trainer with the New Organizing Institute and also an award-winning theatrical director and performer. Joel gives us some quick tips for doing media that anyone can use should they find themselves on the receiving end of a camera.Media Panel, Garbage Dreams and Cartoons in Conflict
December 10, 2009Obama headed overseas this week, to the Copenhagen climate talks. Today, though, he made a stop in Oslo to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. It's also Human Rights Day, but you might be excused for not having heard that--the media seems more concerned with Tiger Woods' sex life.
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