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Showing videos filed under: Commentary
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.GRITtv Commentary: Hillary-Lovers
June 4, 2008From primary season, let’s move secondary season; from the singular to the plural. The people I know who rooted for Hillary Clinton did it for a reason. It wasn’t her hair, her shoes, her husband… It was out of a stubbon, long-suffering belief that after centuries of being put second, a woman president might put gender justice first.Buy Low Sell High: Praise The Little People
June 4, 2008Congrats to Barack Obama... At the turn of the last century, President Teddy Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner. The next day editorialists across America were howling with rage that a black man was seated at the President's table and Teddy never did it again... One hundred years ago....