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. Last Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle 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 has said that it is looking 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 fact-check of John McCain’s recent ads and Glenn Greenwald’s reporting on the anthrax saga. What questions should we be asking ABC News about its anthrax reporting in 2001? And last week’s most shameful journalistic escapade: hands down the WSJ’s shoddy attempt to make the case that Obama’s lack of body fat might be a liability in the upcoming election. 

Want to know what you missed last week? The good, the bad, and the ugly? Take a look at GRITtv’s media roundtable.