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This week's show:
Broadcast dates: 4/30-5/6/04
Guests:
Rahul Mahajan on Fallujah
Greg Nojeim on Bush & PATRIOT Act
The US campaign to win hearts and minds seems to have run into a snag in Fallujah, where the military attack and siege has cost hundreds of Iraqi civilians their lives. How important is the Fallujah story and how well has US journalism covered it? CounterSpin will talk to Journalist Rahul Mahajan of Empirenotes.org, he's just returned from Iraq where he spent some time in besieged Fallujah.
Also this week: the Bush administration is making yet another attempt to sell the public on the Patriot Act. This time around it was George W. Bush himself doing the selling. But did the news media fail to point out the inaccuracies and deception in Bush's pro-Patriot speeches? We'll put that question to Greg Nojeim of the ACLU.
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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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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.