Eleanor Goldfield opens the program with a conversation about Gaza; her guest, Nora Barrows-Friedman, rebuts common Israeli / US talking points, and identifies Zionism as the actual obstacle to peace. Then Shealeigh Voitl tells Mickey about some of her recent research and writing. She finds fundamental differences in how corporate media and community media cover gun violence, and takes entertainment-industry publications to task for employer-biased coverage of the Hollywood writers’ strike. Also, she points out flaws and dangers in the so-called EARN IT Act.

Nora Barrows Friedman has reported about the Middle East for 20 years, and is Associate Editor at the Electronic Intifada (www.electronicintifada.net).

Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored and has also written for Truthout, the Progressive, Ms., and elsewhere.

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