David Swanson on military budget, Aram Roston on Bloomberg
CounterSpin (2/18/11-2/24/11)
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This week on CounterSpin: The federal budget is big news this week, but while your hearing all the calls for cuts, cuts and more cuts, ask yourself, what isn’t considered an acceptable target for substantive reductions? Here’s a hint: it accounts for more than half of the country’s public spending. We’ll talk about the budget with activist and author David Swanson.
Also on CounterSpin today, public interest groups and media activists of all stripes lined up to oppose the Comcast-NBC merger. And among the coalition of anti-merger activists was… Bloomberg, the media company owned by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. So what did they want? And did they get it? Journalist Aram Roston took a look at Bloomberg’s media policy activism in a new piece for the Nation magazine. He’ll join us to talk about it.
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LINKS:—David Swanson
–“How Bloomberg Does Business,” by Aram Roston (The Nation, 2/28/11)