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Today on Your Call: Friday Media Roundtable

On today's Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll have a conversation about media coverage of 'This American Life' retracting Mike Daisey's  monologue about Apple-Foxconn. We’ll also mark the 9th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. We’ll be joined by Mother Jones’ Andy Kroll, Atlantic’s Rebecca Greenfield, and Aljazeera’s Jane Arraf joins us from Baghdad. Join us live at 10 or send and email to feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you

Guests:

Rebecca Greenfield, staff writer for The Atlantic Wire

Andy Kroll, staff reporter in Mother Jones magazine's Washington DC bureau

Jane Arraf, Middle East correspondent with Aljazeera, based in Baghdad

Web Resources:

Stream, Aljazeera: 'Emo' youth targeted in Iraq

Sinan Antoon, Jadalyyia: A Barbarian in Rome

Aljazeera: Iraq gears up for Arab League summit

Shamal Aqrawi, Reuters: Kurds say Exxon still working in N. Iraq

Andy Kroll, Mother Jones: Are Walmart's Chinese Factories as Bad as Apple's?

Rebecca Greenfield , The Atlantic Wire: Lessons from the 'This American Life' Daisey Debacle

This American Life: Retraction

Rob Schmitz: Marketplace: An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details