Today on Your Call: media ownership and US-Russia relations

On today's Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week we’ll discuss media coverage of Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post. He is not the first billionaire adding media outfits to his portfolio. What does the trend mean for the future of journalism? We’ll also talk about US Russia relations after Edward Snowden was granted asylum. We’ll be joined by the Seattle Times’ Jay Greene, the Nations’ John Nichols and Christian Science Monitor’s Fred Weir. Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Jay Greene, the Seattle Times business reporter 

John Nichols, the Washington correspondent for The Nation

Fred Weir, Moscow correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor

Web Resources:

CNET: Bezos: Forget profits for now; we're still spending

The Nation: Big Media Story Isn't Bezos and the Post, It's the RNC Threatening CNN, NBC

Christian Science Monitor: Could LGBT issues be the bigger takeaway from Obama's snub of Putin?

NPR: Egypt May Not Need Fighter Jets, But The U.S. Keeps Sending Them Anyway