November 17, 2006

Counterspin – November 17, 2006

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Barack Obama wasn’t running for anything this

election season, but you may have thought that he was, judging from the

media coverage he generated. Obama’s appeal extends across the political and

pundit spectrum; indeed, finding anything approaching critical coverage of

the freshman Senator is next to impossible. So what’s going on here? Glen

Ford of the Black Agenda Report joins us to talk about it.

Also on CounterSpin: We know that media can turn any factoid into a

phenomenon when they choose: after the last election we were subjected to

months of discourse on how voters put ‘moral values’ above all else based on

a single exit poll question. So what will media make of the fact that, in

the midterm elections, proponents of so-called ‘free trade’ agreements were

handed their hats, especially given that those trade agreements enjoy such

unequivocally endorsement in the elite media? We’ll hear from Chris Slevin

of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, on that story.

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November 17, 2006

Counterspin – November 17, 2006

Listen Later

4 minutes

Barack Obama wasn’t running for anything this

election season, but you may have thought that he was, judging from the

media coverage he generated. Obama’s appeal extends across the political and

pundit spectrum; indeed, finding anything approaching critical coverage of

the freshman Senator is next to impossible. So what’s going on here? Glen

Ford of the Black Agenda Report joins us to talk about it.

Also on CounterSpin: We know that media can turn any factoid into a

phenomenon when they choose: after the last election we were subjected to

months of discourse on how voters put ‘moral values’ above all else based on

a single exit poll question. So what will media make of the fact that, in

the midterm elections, proponents of so-called ‘free trade’ agreements were

handed their hats, especially given that those trade agreements enjoy such

unequivocally endorsement in the elite media? We’ll hear from Chris Slevin

of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, on that story.

The post Counterspin – November 17, 2006 appeared first on KPFA.

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