Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis, Part 3
Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer discuss the present and future of media with the global economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the health care debate raging on.Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer discuss the present and future of media.
Editor’s note: A few months ago, Truthdig hosted a panel called “Media Meltdown in a Time of Crisis,” with Amy Goodman, Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer. The panelists discussed the present and future of media with the global economic crisis, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the health care debate raging on. Here is the third and final installment of that event.
Click here for part 2. Videography by Mansoor Sabbagh and Jeanne Kyle, editing by Chloe Zuanich
Goodman and Hedges on corporate media.
Goodman says the door is open: “People have felt that they are hitting their head against a brick wall for a long time now. And now that wall is a door. That door is open a crack. And the question is whether it will be kicked open or slammed shut.”
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