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Your Call: Media coverage of violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya & the Affordable Care Act

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A woman walks among debris after fire destroyed shelters at a camp for internally displaced Rohingya Muslims in the western Rakhine State near Sittwe, Myanmar

This week, we’ll discuss media coverage of state sanctioned violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. More than 20,000 people have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh.

We'll also talk about the Republican plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. How are reporters covering Obamacare? And given that the Republicans have no alternatives, how are the media holding them accountable? Join us live at 10 am, on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:

Paul Mooney, award winning freelance journalist

Will Bunch, senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, and author of its popular blog Attytood

Trudy Lieberman, longtime health journalist, contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review, and  blogger for Health News Review

Web Resources:

Paul Mooney

Philly.com: What's up, Doc (and Mr. Mayor), with the Trump flirtations?

The Republic: Changes to health care could mean higher costs, less coverage

CNN: 'The Rohingya Alan Kurdi': Will the world take notice now?

The Guardian: Is Rohingya persecution caused by business interests rather than religion?

The Guardian: Senators demand inquiry into whether Trump pick broke insider trading laws

Rose Aguilar has been the host of Your Call since 2006. She became a regular media roundtable guest in 2001. In 2019, the San Francisco Press Club named Your Call the best public affairs program. In 2017, The Nation named it the most valuable local radio show.