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On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, the investigative news website Wikileaks revealed 92,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, including evidence of widespread civilian casualties, to the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Speigel. While some are calling it the biggest leak in intelligence history, others say the documents expose nothing new about the war. How did the news media cover the new information? And what is Wikileaks and how will it change investigative reporting? We'll also discuss the latest news on the BP disaster.
We'll be joined by The Guardian's Nick Davies, who reported extensively on the leaked documents, independent journalist Rick Rowley, who just returned from six weeks in Afghanistan, Time's Jerusalem chief Tim McGirk, and journalist Dahr Jamail, who is continuing to cover the disaster in the Gulf for IPS and others. Join the conversation live at 11am or send your questions and comments to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Guests:
Nick Davies, a reporter with The Guardian and bestselling author of Flat Earth News, on falsehood and distortion in the media.
Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist, author, and blogger who currently writes for the Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many other outlets. He authored Beyond the Green Zone; his stories have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent.
Richard Rowley, an independent journalist with Big Noise Films, who just returned from a six-week trip to Afghanistan where he was embedded with a U.S. Marine division in Marjah.
Tim McGirk, Time Magazine's Jerusalem Bureau Chief
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07.30.10 Media Roundtable
Huff Post: WikiLeaks Media Reaction -- A Frenzy of Frantic Yawning
Wikileaks
Eric Michael Johnson, Huffington Post: Analysis of Civilian Casualties in WikiLeaks Afghan File Reveals Media Bias
Julian Assange, Washington Post: WikiLeaks' Julian Assange on Afghanistan war documents
Time: The Middle East Blog
Dahr Jamail, Truthout: BP Response Workers Report Low Morale, Lack of Pay, Sickness
Dahr Jamail, IPS: BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico's Food Chain
Politico: Holder: DOJ probing Wikileaks Afghan leak
Nick Davies, The Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Story behind biggest leak in intelligence history
New York Times op-ed: A Secret Archive of What We Already Know
Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper, New York Times: Leaks add to pressure on White House over Strategy
John Goetz and Marcel Rosenbach, Der Speigel: Is WikiLeaks a Blessing or Curse for Democracy?
Tom Hayden, The Nation: Despite WikiLeaks Revelations, Congress Votes for War Funding
07.29.10 What is today's political pulse on immigration?
Huffington Post: Meg Whitman: I Do Support Arizona Law... for Arizona
ACLU Arizona
Border Action Network
California Immigrant Policy Center
Warren Institute--UC Berkeley School of Law
La Frontera Times
Imagine 2050
Immigration Impact
Multi-American
Tucson Citizen: Border Sheriff Drops Endorsement of John McCain over SB1070
LA Times: Injunction puts parts of Arizona's SB 1070 on hold
Tucson Citizen: Was SB 1070 worth it? Commentary
07.28.10 What happens to hospitals -- and patients -- when their budgets get cut?
Clarion Ledger: Where will they go? Facilities closing, downsizing amid financial cutbacks
Monterey County Herald: CHOMP plans deep cuts to budget
California Healthline: County Requests State Aid After Diverting Funds for Hospital
The California Report--KQED: A Hospital At Risk
California Watch: California emergency rooms average 274-minute waits
07.27.10 How can we take on our vast secret government?
Washington Post: Top Secret America
The Atlantic: The Post Covers Spy Town
True/Slant: On the Washington Post's 'Top Secret America'
The Nation: Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq
Salon.com: The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak
WikiLeaks
NY Times: In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks 'Transparency'
NY Times: The War Logs: An archive of classified military documents offers an unvarnished view of the war in Afghanistan
07.26.10 Is it time to reform Prop 13?
Close the Loophole
Close the Loophole Town Hall
Tuesday, July 27, 6-7:30pm
Laney College Student Center, Oakland
(1 block East of Lake Merritt BART station)
Phil Marshal, East Bay Express: Reforming Prop 13
Meghan McCarty, Bay Citizen: Prop 13's New Apporach
Thomas D. Elias, Mercury News: Prop 13 Finally Gets Serious Look
David Bohnett, Huffington Post: On Prop 13 -- Time to Amend and Correct
Daniel Weintraub, New York Times: Mothers' Eyes See Trouble with Tax Roll
San Francisco Bay Gaurdian: Ammiano Reviving Prop 13 Reform
07.23.10 Media Roundtable
Washington Post: Top Secret America
Democracy Now: Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System
Liz Cox Barrett, Columbia Journalism Review: It's Morning in Top Secret America
Alex Kane, FAIR: Washington Post Sheds Light on Secret Government but Alt Media Were There First
The New York Times: A Look at The Washington Post's Top Secret America
Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review: Covering the Historic Financial Reform Bill
Andy Kroll, Mother Jones: Wall Street Reform's Biggest Winners and Losers
Andy Kroll, Mother Jones: BP: From Oil Spilling to Financial Reform Killing
Shahien Nasiripour, Huffington Post: Financial Reform Bill Passes: Banks Keep Derivatives Units, Volcker Rules Softened; House-Senate Conference Passes Financial Reform Bill After Marathon Session
Tim Shorrock's website
07.22.10 What's life like as a hotel worker today?
Marc Norton, BeyondChron: Hotel Workers, Guests Only "Pawn in Their Game"
Beyond Chron: 2009: Year of Hope and Struggle for SF Hotel Workers
People's World: Hyatt workers protest in San Francisco
Change.org: Hotel Workers Bravely Ask People to Boycott Their Own Hotels
Boycott these properties (a list of hotels)
Hotel Workers Rising: July 22: Workers in 15 cities take on Hyatt and its billionaire owners.
SF Appeal: Hotel Workers' Demonstration Could Mess Up Your Commute Tomorrow Afternoon
Center for Law and Social Policy: When Restaurant and Hotel Workers Don't Have Paid Sick Days, It Hurts Us All
SFIndyBay.org: Commemoration of The 1980 SF Hotel Workers Strike & The Zim's Restaurant Workers Struggle
07.21.10 How should we interact with strangers?
Consequential Strangers: The Power of People Who Don't Seem to Matter... But Really Do by Melinda Blau
Book website: Consequential Strangers
KidPower
Christine Carter PhD, Huffington Post: Talking to Strangers (and Other Things That Bring Luck)
Live Science: Why We 'Play Nice' With Strangers
Innovate on Purpose: Relying on the kindness of strangers
American Scientist: An interview with Paul Seabright
07.20.10 How can we save our planet's animal species from extinction?
Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution by Caroline Fraser
Carolyn Jones, SF Chronicle: Mission blue butterfly returns to Twin Peaks
Center for Biological Diversity
Rewilding the World
Bagheera
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN): Wildlife In A Changing World -- An analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
IUCN: Red List
New York Review of Books: Why We Must Bring Back the Wolf
SF Gate, Review: 'Rewilding the World,' by Caroline Fraser --
Arkive--Images of Life on Earth
International League of Conservation Photographers: A Climate for Life
07.19.10 Should we be afraid of increasing debt?
Ezra Klein, Washington Post: Do Conservatives Care About the Deficit? Do Democrats?
Christopher Hayes, The Nation: Deficits of Mass Destruction
Mike Konczal, Washinton Post: W is written into our historic memories, as well as our federal budget
Donna Smith, Reuters: US Deficit Reduction Painful, Commission Chiefs Warn
Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post: Voters Say To Hell With Deficit Reduction, Help the Unemployed
Bloomberg: IMF's Cottarrelli says countries need medium term deficit plans
Minnesota Public Radio: Economic Recovery: Stimulus vs. Deficit
Economist Mom
The Concord Coalition
The Roosevelt Institute
Rortybomb (Mike Konczal's Blog)
Summer Reading List - 2010
Book Title |
Author |
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A Short History of Nearly Everything |
Bill Bryson |
Alive at The Village Vanguard: My Life in and Out of Jazz |
Lorraine Gordon |
Animal Vegetable Miracle |
Barbara Kingsolver |
Big Hair and Plastic Grass |
Dan Epstein |
Book of Elsewhere |
Jacqueline West |
Buddhism Without Beliefs |
Stephen Batchelor |
Confession of a Buddhist Atheist |
Stephen Batchelor |
Cutting For Stone |
Abraham Verghese |
Daring Spectacle |
Mark Morford |
Dicey's Song |
Cynthia Voigt |
El Hombre Que Amaba A Los Perros (The man who loved dogs) |
Leonardo Padura |
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle |
Chris Hedges |
Five Skies |
Ron Carlson |
For The Wind |
Corey Doctorow |
Furious Improvisation |
Susan Quinn |
Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba |
T.J English |
Homecoming |
Cynthia Voigt |
Hunger Games |
Susan Collins |
Lies My Teacher Told Me |
James W. Loewen |
Little Brother |
Corey Doctorow |
Manhood For Amateurs |
Michael Chabon |
Mocking Jay |
Susan Collins |
Not One Drop: Betrayal and Courage in the Wake of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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Ricki Ott |
Olive Kitteridge |
Elizabeth Strout |
The Creature from Jekyll Island |
G. Edward Griffin |
The End of Food |
Paul Roberts |
The Family |
Jeff Charlotte |
The God of Small Things |
Arundhati Roy |
The Imperfectionists |
Tom Rachman |
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake |
Aimee Bender |
The Passage |
Justin Cronin |
| Prodigal Summer |
Barbara Kingsolver |
The Professor and Other Writings |
Terry Castle |
The Queen Mother |
William Shawcross |
The Return |
Roberto Bolano |
The Savage Detectives |
Roberto Bolano |
The Secret |
Anonymous Bosch |
The Watchman's Rattle |
Rebecca D. Costa |
The Wave |
Susan Casey |
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade of America |
Douglas Brinkley |
The Yellow Light Bookshop |
Lewis Buzbee |
Wisdom of Crowds |
James Surowiecki |
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas |
Diane Wilson |
Write That Book Already!
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Sam Barry & Kathi Kamen Goldmark |
07.16.10 Media Roundtable
Trenton Daniel, Miami Herald: Blind violinist struggles to rebuild Haiti in his own way
Trenton Daniel, Miami Herald: Nowhere to go, so Haiti's displaced residents stay in squalid camps
Dahr Jamail's reports from New Orleans
Mother Jones: Robbing New Orleans to Pay for BP's Spill
Mother Jones: "They Just Don't Know Who They're Messing With"
Riki Ott: BP, Government Downplay Public Health Risks from Oil and Dispersants (Photos)
Valeria Fernandez's reports from Phoenix
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media: Domestic Violence Victims Silenced by SB1070
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media: Hope Comes to Immigrants in Arizona
Harpers: Tea party in Sonora: For the future of G.O.P. governance, look to Arizona
07.15.10 What can we learn from the Gulf oil disaster?
5pm Protest against #BP @ the Helios Energy Research Facility corner of Shattuck & Hearst in Berkeley. Info from Code Pink
Riki Ott & Diane Wilson report back tonight at 7:00 in Berkeley
The David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way in Berkeley
Riki Ott's website
Review of Diane Wilson's Book: An Unreasonable Woman
Diane Wilson bio
Riki Ott, Huffington Post: From the Ground: BP Censoring Media, Destroying Evidence
Change.org: Don't Let 9/11 Health Problems Repeat In The Gulf
BP Makes Me Sick
07.14.10 What's on your summer reading list?
New York Review of Books
Green Apple Books
San Francisco Public Library
Collaborative Summer Library Program
BookReview.com
07.13.10 How do you live a good life in the digital age?
Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age by William Powers
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier
Jaron Lanier's website
William Powers' website
07.12.10 Who is on the debt panel?
Economic Policy Institute
Jeff Faux, The Hill: "Myths about the federal budget deficit"
David Lightman, McClatchy: "No full Social Security benefits until age 70?"
Steven Thomma, McClatchy: "Obama's budget deficits to rise from wars, recession"
Dan Balz, Washington Post: "Debt commission chiefs give gloomy fiscal outlook"
Trudy Lieberman, CJR: "Secrecy at the Deficit Commission: Note to the media: It's past time for a little sunshine here"
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What is today's political pulse on immigration? [07.29.10]
What happens to hospitals -- and patients -- when their budgets get cut? [07.28.10]
How can we take on our vast secret government? [07.27.10]
Is it time to reform Prop 13? [07.26.10]
Media Roundtable [07.23.10]
What's life like as a hotel worker today? [07.22.10]
How should we interact with strangers? [07.21.10]
How can we save our planet's animal species from extinction? [07.20.10]
Should we be afraid of increasing debt? [07.19.10]
Media Roundtable [07.16.10]
What can we learn from the Gulf oil disaster? [07.15.10]
What's on your summer reading list? [07.14.10]
How do you live a good life in the digital age? [07.13.10]
Who is on the debt panel? [07.12.10]
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What does it mean to be transgender or transsexual today? [06.23.10]
Is it time for 'fair trade' electronics? [06.22.10]
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How will the BP spill affect us long-term? [06.08.10]
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Media Roundtable [06.04.10]
Will the Flotilla attack affect Israel? [06.03.10]
Is Prop. 15 good campaign finance reform? [06.02.10]
Does California need a Top Two primary? [06.01.10]
Has Obama helped veterans? [05.31.10]
Media Roundtable [05.28.10]
How do chemicals in our environment impact cancer rates? [05.27.10]
What's next for Tibet? [05.26.10]
How has the birth control pill changed women's lives? [05.25.10]
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Are the middle-aged years the smartest of our lives? [05.19.10]
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Who should pay for the financial crisis? [05.17.10]
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What will it take to end the siege on Gaza? [05.13.10]
Does noise pollution get under your skin? [05.12.10]
Has an Oscar saved Japan's dolphins? [05.11.10]
What can economists contribute to public policy? [05.10.10]
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What does being a citizen mean to you? [05.06.10]
What does offshore drilling mean to you? [05.05.10]
What do we owe the wrongfully convicted? [05.04.10]
What's the state of the military industrial complex? [05.03.10]
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How effective are boycotts? [04.29.10]
Who should have their hands on the global thermostat? [04.28.10]
Do you know "a woman like that?" [04.27.10]
Could Financial Reform Curb Wall Street? [04.26.10]
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What have we done to protect our Mother Earth? [04.22.10]
Are We Ready for the Next Big Quake? [04.21.10]
How do the Drug War and NAFTA Affect Mexico? [04.20.10]
How can Unions Shape the U.S. Economy? [04.19.10]
Media Roundtable [04.16.10]
How Do People with Mental Illness Experience the World? [04.15.10]
Is There a Poem that has Moved You? [04.14.10]
What Do We See Now in South Africa? [04.13.10]
Can We Take the Factory Out of the Farm? [04.12.10]
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How Do We Break the Silence Around Domestic Violence? [04.08.10]
What will It Take to Save California's Salmon? [04.07.10]
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