July 14, 2006

Counterspin – July 14, 2006

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Guests: Mark Weisbrot on Mexican election; James Zogby on Gaza crisis

This week on CounterSpin: The still-unresolved presidential election in

Mexico is a lot of things to the US press: a test of the appeal of trade

deals like NAFTA, or a referendum on left-wing populism. It’s no surprise

that the consensus media favorite among is conservative candidate Felipe

Calderon. But what’s missing from the reporting? And when leftist candidate

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador calls for counting every vote, why do some in

the press consider that a problem? We’ll ask Mark Weisbrot of the Center for

Economic and Policy Research.

Also on CounterSpin today, a major newspaper ran a recent column complaining

that in Gaza, Israel is causing electricity blackouts, laying sieges,

bombing and shelling, assassinating and imprisoning, killing and wounding

civilians, including children and babies, in horrifying numbers, and

justifying it with the schoolyard line, "they started it". If that sounds

surprising, you should know that the paper was not a US one, but an Israeli

one. How does US coverage of Gaza look in comparison? We’ll hear from James

Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute.

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July 14, 2006

Counterspin – July 14, 2006

Listen Later

4 minutes

Guests: Mark Weisbrot on Mexican election; James Zogby on Gaza crisis

This week on CounterSpin: The still-unresolved presidential election in

Mexico is a lot of things to the US press: a test of the appeal of trade

deals like NAFTA, or a referendum on left-wing populism. It’s no surprise

that the consensus media favorite among is conservative candidate Felipe

Calderon. But what’s missing from the reporting? And when leftist candidate

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador calls for counting every vote, why do some in

the press consider that a problem? We’ll ask Mark Weisbrot of the Center for

Economic and Policy Research.

Also on CounterSpin today, a major newspaper ran a recent column complaining

that in Gaza, Israel is causing electricity blackouts, laying sieges,

bombing and shelling, assassinating and imprisoning, killing and wounding

civilians, including children and babies, in horrifying numbers, and

justifying it with the schoolyard line, "they started it". If that sounds

surprising, you should know that the paper was not a US one, but an Israeli

one. How does US coverage of Gaza look in comparison? We’ll hear from James

Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute.

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