Today on GRITtv our media roundtable looks back at a week of more bad news for the fourth estate. What’s left of it that is. Newsrooms are facing major cuts and the future of print journalism is in crisis—in fact, it has been for some time. The San Francisco Chronicle has announced that it will offer at least 125 employees the chance to take a buyout before the end of the year. And the Cincinnati Enquirer says that it hopes to buy out 50 staffers.

Here to discuss the future of print journalism and the best and worst of last week are Alex Koppelman, Salon’s War Room blogger, Isabel Macdonald, Communications Director of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, and Hugo Balta, Vice President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. The International AIDS conference in Mexico City and the Unity Journalists of Color conference in Chicago have received scant coverage in the United States. Balta discusses why Spanish language media are outpacing their English counterparts. We also discuss the Washington Post’s debunking of McCain’s recent ads and Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the anthrax saga.

Also, an interview with Dorothy Fadiman producer and director of Stealing America: Vote by Vote. In the 2004 presidential election there were widespread irregularities, technical failures, and disenfranchisement. No one connected the dots. In this film Fadiman takes a comprehensive look at just how broken our electoral system is.

And the American News Project continues its hunt for Karl Rove. The House Judiciary Committee recently voted to hold Rove in contempt of Congress. Will he be arrested? Take a look here. Finally a commentary from Martha Burk on asking the candidates about the issues that matter. All that and more on GRITtv.