Tonight on GRITtv our media roundtable reviews the best and worst of last week with Jeff Cohen, Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, Lionel, the author of Everyone s Crazy Except You and Me and host of the Lionel Show on Air America, and Michelle Chen a freelance writer in NY. There were plenty of big stories but the major news outlets seemed incapable of covering them well. It was a grim week. From coverage of John Ashcroft s testimony before congress to McCain s pronouncement that Social Security is an absolute disgrace, there was a dearth of quality reporting. So where do we go to get our news? Find out here.And an interview with Martha Burk, Director of the Corporate Accountability Project for the National Council of Women s Organizations and the author of Your Money and Your Life: High Stakes for Women Voters in '08 and Beyond. Burk, an advisor on women s issues for Bill Richardson, lays out in plain English why feminism is about political, social, and economic equality. She takes on everything from Social Security (the main source of women s retirement) to taxation, pay equity, and the role of women in the armed services. Women are a majority of voters in the United States, something John Kerry seemed to not understand in 2004. Is Obama making the same mistake?Finally a commentary from David Sirota, Brave New Films' new Rove campaign, and a preview of a gorgeous work from DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller, as he sets out to record the sound of a continent. "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica," will be performed in full at the BAM Opera House for the Next Wave Festival in December '09. He's also bringing a version to Denver during the DNC.
