What if anything have we learned from the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates? Bill Fletcher, Jr., Ron Kuby, Dennis Parker, and Irene Monroe on race, class, and law enforcement in America. GREG GRANDIN reports from Latin America on Manuel Zelaya's attempts to return to power. Finally, DEAN BAKER of the Center for Economic and Policy Research on Ben Bernanke's PR blitz, healthcare, and the right to rent.

After years of tax cuts and salary hikes for people at the top, and a wage feeze or roll back at the bottom, corporate executives and top employees now account for more than one-third of all salaries earned in the United States. According to Social Security Administration figures, top earners pulled in $2.1 trillion of the total $6.4 trillion paid in 2007. To state that again: of the pool of salary money that's paid out in this country -- a third of it goes to just the very top earners.

Journalists at President Obama’s press conference Wednesday asked about his current plans for health care reform as well as his thoughts on the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates. What implications are there for health care reform now that he’s admitted that the only way to cover absolutely everyone is with a single payer system, and did he skirt the issue of race when it came to Gates?

In this week's Got Docs? we take a look at 'What's Organic about Organic?', a new film by Shelley Rogers. She follows around activists, scientists, and most importantly, farmers, as they look at the issues involved in 'being organic'.

The healthcare battle continues and GRITtv Host Laura Flanders makes the case for a single payer public option and why Obama should spend some political capital in order to make sure it happens. There are high approval ratings for a public plan so what's stopping him? Well, maybe the psycho babble that surrounds so much of the national conversation on healthcare.

Today on GRITtv: our Media Panel discusses Cronkite's death, Obama's take on racial profiling and holding the Bush administration accountable for torture. Then a performance by Jonatha Brookes and in this week's Got Docs?: 'What's Organic about Organic?'

We often bemoan what's come to dominate news. But seeing that poem there forty years ago sparked another question: When did we decide to fill up all the space? Fill up the space – for conversation, collaboration – meeting in our media? And while I’m at it – what does it mean that today, if there's anything other than reporting on page one, it's only selling us things - more advertising.

Efforts to deliver aid and medical supplies to the people of Gaza have become increasingly difficult. On June 30, a vessel carrying humanitarian aid was turned away by Israeli gunships and the activists were arrested and held for seven days before being deported. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has been on the ground providing aid to the people of Gaza for 60 years.

Former Bank of America employee Chris Feener says that little has changed at BoA since the company received billions of dollars in tax-payer money. The company continues to use what Feener calls guerrilla collection tactics and compensates its employees based on the amount of debt they collect. Feener, who hadn't received a raise in several years, says that bonuses of five to $6,000 dollars were often awarded on a monthly basis.

What did you make of the presser? A lot of people have got to be disappointed. Let's discuss it. I'm here for the hour.