The live studio taping comes up early today - 11:30 Eastern, 8:30am FDL
The corporate media have spun the post election frame to argue that Obama should break his campaign promises. The financial crisis is too grave. Healthcare reform, renegotiating NAFTA, and the Employee Free Choice Act should all be dropped.
An editorial in USA Today described the above positions as "small bore ideas" that Obama trumpeted more for "their political appeal than for their economic usefulness." So what are the corporate media's interests? One big story that revealed a sliver of the military-media-industrial complex was featured in the Sunday Times. David Barstow's profile of NBC's military analyst Barry McCaffrey.
Glenn Greenwald has been following the fallout and if you want to know why we know so little about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this is a good place to start. Also, reporting from India. Has any of the reporting here gone beyond the blame game? Last but not least, Bush's lame duck executive orders from denying federal employees the right to unionize to easing environmental regulations and opening sensitive land to gas and oil exploration. All that and more on today's media roundtable.
Panelists: Thom Hartmann of Air America; Elinor Tatum, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Amsterdam News; Peter Hart, Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Laura,
Could your panelists shed light on the following?
How much must Obama set in stone in terms of his strategies and issues taking precedent prior to January 20th? Does the office of the presidency REQUIRE all to be expressed beforehand or can Obama get into office and change virtually everything he has proclaimed crucial up to this point?
Thanks.
By political123 on December 4th, 2008 at 11:38 am
The flip side of that is the Outgoing president – making lots of rules and directives before we shoo them out the door.
I’d like to see those lame duck actions on the front page of the NYT everyday. And I wonder how easy it will be for the Obama team to undo what is being done on these micro regulatory fronts.
By LisaG on December 4th, 2008 at 11:50 am
What’s up next?
By LisaG on December 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm