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This week's show:
Broadcast dates: 2/27/04-3/4/04

Guests:
Mary Turck on Haiti
Bob Dreyfuss on Iraq intelligence

This week on CounterSpin we'll be joined by investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss, who will talk to us about faulty pre-war intelligence on Iraq, and how a secret and largely unaccountable organization inside the Pentagon manufactured and publicized much of the dubious intelligence at the core of the Bush administration's case for war. He wrote about all of this in a recent Mother Jones article, The Lie Factory.

And we'll take another look at the crisis in Haiti. It's now a top story in the media, but are news reports giving us enough background about what led to the current standoff? We'll ask Mary Turck, editor of 'Connection to the Americas', a publication from the Resource Center of the Americas in Minneapolis. LINKS:
"The Lie Factory" by Bob Dreyfuss and Jason Vest (Mother Jones, Jan/Feb 2004)
Haiti Q & A, by Mary Turck (2/23/04)

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.

CounterSpin staff:

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.

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