On the March 18th edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss coverage of the mass protests over the corruption scandal involving Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras, which has rocked the country’s political establishment.
We’ll also talk about media coverage of Tuesday’s primaries and the rise of the multi-billion dollar election industrial complex. What grabbed your attention in the news this week? Join the conversation, on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor of Harper's Magazine and the author, most recently, of Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins
Will Bunch, award-winning senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, and author of the new e-book titled The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream
Will Carless, Global Post/PRI senior correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Web Resources:
Harper’s: Down the Tube: Television, turnout, and the election-industrial
Global Post: Lucky Lula! Cabinet job buys Brazil’s ex-president some time
Economist: The 2016 presidential money race
Philly.com: Trump and the prophecy of Fatimah