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GRITtv: What's Missing In Today's Media?

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Every week on GRITtv, we discuss the week in news: stories that made a splash, stories that were ignored, stories that were covered well, or stories that were covered badly.

GRITtv: The Media as Establishment

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Joe Lieberman hijacked news coverage for a while this week, but it was Howard Dean's defense of real health care reform that inspired White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to a snarling personal response. Ben Bernanke was anointed Time's Person of the Year despite a hold on his renomination and a bill passing the house to audit the Federal Reserve. Is the Establishment closing ranks around its own?

GRITtv: Tiger, Obama, Unemployment, Oh My!

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The Copenhagen climate talks, Obama's Nobel peace prize, jobless numbers, a proposed compromise in the Senate on health care reform, or Tiger Woods' sex life: which is the most-covered story this week? You'd probably be right if you guessed Tiger Woods. We don't have statistics, but we do have a panel of journalists joining us in the studio to discuss the way the media did--and didn't--cover the biggest news of the day.

GRITtv: September 16, 2009

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One year on from the sinking of Lehman, and the conventional wisdom seems to be that we’ve moved away from the precipice. But not everyone is so sure. If anything has been preserved, if not enlarged, it is the deep inequalities of American capitalism. Not only that, but are the necessary regulations in place to prevent a second storm? Discussion with David Cay Johnston, author of "Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense."

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