FRIDAY Media Roundtable On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable when we sniff out the bias and applaud good work. This week Russia and Georgia went to war. What explains the dramatic difference in coverage of the fighting between American and Russian media? Were the facts in question, or did bias hide facts from both audiences? We'll speak with Pulitzer prize winner David Cay Johnston, Gail Chaddock of the Christian Science Monitor and independent reporter Tim Shorrock. Is unbiased reporting the same as reporting whose bias you agree with? It's Your Call. Guests: Gail Chaddock in Washington DC Congressional Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor; David Cay Johnston in Chatauqua, New York Pulitzer Prize winner, former New York Times tax reporter and author of Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill) Tim Shorrock in San Francisco Independent investigative journalist and author of Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing COMING UP What happened in Georgia? Is it about oil? Disputed territory? The crumbling of US hegemony? Or the US and Israel interfering in Russia's backyard?
]]>