GRITtv with Laura Flanders
GRITtv: Does the Right Still Dominate the News Cycle?
Oct 15, 2009 Episode Archive
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Laura Flanders talks to creative thinkers and change-makers from the worlds of politics, arts and the new economy. The smartest conversations, with the smartest thinkers and doers of our time, distributed in multiple formats on a variety of platforms. Keep abreast of fresh content by following GRITtv, the site Flanders founded, on Twitter @GRITtv.
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About this episode
Oct 15, 2009
24:55
News & Politics
Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Joe Conason of The New York Observer, and Air America's Sam Seder are our media panel, discussing the best and ...
Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Joe Conason of The New York Observer, and Air America's Sam Seder are our media panel, discussing the best and worst of this week in journalism. From Arianna Huffington getting interrupted for dubious news to the snark overload on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, there was plenty of bad (and a little good) to debate. Obama's trip to New Orleans and the National Equality March were overshadowed heavily by Rush Limbaugh's aborted attempt to buy a football team and the White House statement on Fox News. Does the right still control which stories are covered, or is the mainstream media just lazy?
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