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Broadcast dates: 1/7-1/13/05
Guests:
Fawaz Gerges on Iraq and Palestine
Joanne Dorshow on medical malpractice
This week on CounterSpin: Elections this month in occupied Palestine and occupied Iraq have prompted media speculation about emerging Arab democracies. But do elections equal democracy, and what's missing from the coverage of these elections? We'll talk to Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle East and international studies at Sarah Lawrence College.
Also this week: George W. Bush made medical malpractice a big story with a major speech in Illinois that fingered runaway jury verdicts and trial lawyer as the real problems. That's a familiar line, but is the administration's spin fact or fiction? We'll speak to Joanne Doroshow of the Center for Justice & Democracy.
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CounterSpin is FAIR's weekly radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall and Peter Hart. It's heard on more than 125 noncommercial stations across the United States and Canada.
CounterSpin provides a critical examination of the major stories every week, and exposes what the mainstream media might have missed in their own coverage. Combining lively discussion and a thoughtful media critique, CounterSpin is unlike any other show on the dial.
CounterSpin exposes and highlights biased and inaccurate news; censored stories; sexism, racism and homophobia in the news; the power of corporate influence; gaffes and goofs by leading TV pundits; TV news' narrow political spectrum; attacks on free speech; and more.
--Ben Bagdikian, author of The Media Monopoly
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Host/Producer:
Janine Jackson (jjackson@fair.org)
Host/Producer:
Steve Rendall (srendall@fair.org)
Host/Producer & Distribution:
Peter Hart (phart@fair.org)
CounterSpin is recorded and engineered at Mercer Media.