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. Our panelists are: Thom Hartmann of Air America; Elinor Tatum, Editor-in-Chief & Publisher, Amsterdam News; and Peter Hart of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.