Oil gushers and Israeli commandoes dominated the headlines this week, but the news too often seemed to come from the same sources, over and over again.  Cable news hosts and guests alike repeated the Israeli government's statements on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza--or what they termed a lack of one--and BP managed to continue to control access to its oil, coating beaches in the Gulf of Mexico.

For a look at this week's media mistakes, we turn to Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.

While the world focused on the Freedom Flotilla and the BP oil still pouring into the Gulf, activists from around the U.S. converged in Arizona to protest the state's recent anti-immigrant legislation this past weekend. Recent GRITtv guest Marco Amador was there and sent us this report.

Health care reform made it through Congress and was signed by the President, and promptly disappeared from headlines aside from occasional Republican attempts or vows to repeal it. But the system is far from fixed, and hospital closings, budget cuts and understaffings contribute just as much to our nation's health care crisis.

What can we do about it? To discuss the ongoing crunch on the medical profession, the problem with funding and the falling tax base, we asked Arthur Cheliotes of the Communications Workers of America union and Dr. Greg Dodell of the Committee of Interns and Residents and a resident physician at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital in New York.

A picture's worth a thousand words, but what those words are depends a whole lot in American  media, at least, on pre-existing official attitudes. Take the picture of Neda Agha-Soltan -- last year, she became the face of Iranian resistance after a YouTube clip circulated showing the young protestor’s tragic death.  Yet the video from the activists on the Freedom Flotilla has been described as a weapon, worthy of attack.