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Showing videos filed under: Commentary
Why Does Newt Gingrich Hate Freedom?
August 19, 2010My father died two weeks ago. He was a devout Catholic and former Franciscan brother. The last week of his life he was really upset -- not about dying, but about that church in Gainesville that’s planning to burn Korans on 9/11. My dad thought it wasn’t Christian, but an act of Christian supremacy. I said it would be cute if they used German accents.Frank Schaeffer, Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny, and John Lennon
August 18, 2010What's happening as the manufactured controversy over the "Ground Zero Mosque" continues, Frank Schaeffer notes, is nothing less than a new form of antisemitism--one directed this time at Muslims and people of Arab descent. Schaeffer, a former member of the religious right, notes that if comments like the ones being made at the Muslim community were being made about American Jews, there would be outrage, but Islamophobia is socially acceptable now.JoAnn Wypijewski, Louisiana's Methadone, the Houma Nation and Amazon Empire
July 12, 2010November elections are coming up and democrats around the country are starting to wonder if they can hold onto the House. Author and Nation contributor JoAnn Wypijewski joins us in the studio to describe her on the ground tour of the United States – talking to people, and figuring out the political fabric at stake. Even Louisiana’s greenest are against a moratorium on offshore drilling. This seems absurd considering the seemingly irreversible devastation that BP’s carelessness has inflicted on the land, but the Nation’s Environmental Correspondent Mark Hertsgaard claims that oil to Louisiana is heroin to an addict. Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices.Colin Robinson: Amazon Books and Intellectual Compromise
July 12, 2010Since its launch 15 years ago Amazon has grown to be, by some measure, the largest bookseller in the world. According to its founder Jeff Bezos, this ascent has been achieved by giving customers what they want: convenience, wide choice and low, low prices. Of course everyone likes the availability of two million books on the site. And who could complain about discounts of 50% or more on bestsellers? But look beneath the surface and a less rosy picture emerges. It turns out that the way Amazon does business can be seriously damaging for the health of publishers, authors and, yes, those beloved customers too.W. Kamau Bell: What is Happening to America?
June 11, 2010When did Americans stop referring to “our” country and start dividing it into “my” and “your” country?Dean Baker: We Need to Keep Up Public Pressure to Reform Health Care
February 26, 2010Dean Baker reminds us that we need to keep pressuring Obama and our lawmakers to enact health care reform. Baker is Co-Director of the Center for Economic And Policy Research, and author of a new book, False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy. You can also check out his blog at Beat the Press.Media Panel, Jeff Biggers' Reckoning at Eagle Creek and Dean Baker on Healthcare
February 26, 2010As the Health Care Summit was getting under way in Washington DC, our esteemed media panel looks at what role our media has played in covering the never-ending health care debates since Obama assumed power. Then, with more staff cutbacks in major press rooms and talk of The National Enquirer receiving the Pulitzer Prize, what does the future of journalism look like? Finally, our three media dissectors tackle the increasingly disastrous war in Afghanistan - is the media's coverage (or lack thereof) leading to more death and destruction?Rose Aguilar: When Will the Media Remove the Spotlight From the Far-Right Fringe in the Healthcare Debate?
August 27, 2009Rose Aguilar of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco lays out the media's distorted coverage of perspectives on healthcare reform.The F Word: The Hunger News
November 20, 2008It's more than newsprint that leaves newspaper junkies feeling filthy these days. It's the news being reported. It's dirty. Take today's Wall Street Journal. In the National Section there's a story on states cutting Services for the Elderly and disabled. With the economy shrinking, the state of Alabama, for example, has stopped funding homemaker services for 12,000 people.David Sirota: "Centrists" Running the Asylum
July 21, 2008In the asylum that is American politics, beware a candidate like Barack Obama when he is lauded for moving to "the center" - because usually that means he is drifting away from it.