This week on CounterSpin: the White House is hailing George W. Bush's latest executive order as a strong statement against torture, but the claims have been met by a remarkably skeptical press corps. We'll talk to Georgetown law professor and author David Cole about the president's supposed torture ban and the press reaction to it.

Also on the program: The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 14,000 recently and if you’re not excited well you’re just not paying attention—at least that’s corporate media’s line, and they’re sticking to it. We’ll talk to Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research about media’s stock market party and why they insist you’re invited.

Links:

— Bush's Torture Ban Is Full of Loopholes, by David Cole (Salon, 7/23/07)

— The Center for Economic and Policy Research