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The title of the book really says it all: Lapdogs-How the Press Rolled over for Bush. Author Eric Boehlert will join us to talk about how – and why – the Beltway press corps has done its part to prop up the Bush presidency. And with Bush down in the polls, has the media mood changed at all?

Also on the show: "There’s no drug worse than meth," claimed US drug czar

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Articles and posts are flying around the web with headlines like ‘The End of the Internet’. How serious is the threat of the disturbingly named "Communications Opportunity, Promotion and Enhancement Act" and what can you do about it? And, how does it connect to the threat currently facing public access TV? We’ll talk about both issues with Jeff Chester, of the Center for Digital Democracy.

Also: when activists used to protest the World Bank and IMF, many in the mainstream media took the lazy way out, pointing and laughing at the blue haired, street-marching anarchists. Nowadays, coverage of the World Bank has a different kind of problem-kid glove treatment of its new boss, former Pentagon official Paul Wolfowitz. He’s getting high marks from the press, but what do World Bank critics think? We’ll speak to one-Ann Louise Colgan of the group Africa Action.

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This week on CounterSpin: Video news releases are one of the ways

Also on the show: How is it that US reporters and editors are so confident and so nearly univocal in their disdain for protesting French students? It’s because they’ve all signed up to the same belief system about the nature of the global economy and its demands. Our guest suggests viewers will need to go beyond the corporate press corps to really see what’s going on, around the world and here at home. Jeff Faux is the founder and former president of the Economic Policy Institute, and author of a new book, The Global Class

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