On today’s Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll discuss media coverage of President Obama’s proposal to end the NSA’s collection of phone data. We’ll also talk about the Koch Brothers' funding of public colleges and the mass death sentence in Egypt for more than 500 members of the Muslim Brotherhood. We’ll be joined by the Center for Public Integrity’s Dave Levinthal, the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s Trevor Timm and McClatchy’s Nancy Youssef, who'll join us from Cairo. Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.
Guests:
Nancy Youssef, Middle East correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers, based in Cairo, Egypt.
Trevor Timm, co-founder and the executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation
Dave Levinthal, senior political reporter at The Center for Public Integrity covering money in politics
Web Resources:
Nancy Youssef, McClatchy: After big buildup, Egypt finds itself nervous about el-Sissi’s run for the presidency
Nancy Youssef, McClatchy: Visit with jailed Al Jazeera correspondent finds him healthy, haggard
Dave Levinthal, The Center for Public Integrity: Inside the Koch brothers' campus crusade
Trevor Timm, Freedom of the Press Foundation: Lessons for Journalists and Sources from the Microsoft/Blogger Privacy Fiasco
Guardian: Obama's NSA phone-record law ignores the other (big) data we're giving away
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Ahram: Egypt court denies bail for 20 Al-Jazeera journalists
Mother Jones: 5 Things You Need to Know About Obama's NSA Proposal
Mashable: This Is How the NSA Is Trying to Win Over the Media
Al Monitor:Media crackdown more severe for Egyptian journalists
Kudos of the week:
Washington Post: Why do Egyptian courts say the darndest things?
Priceonomics: The Rise and Fall of Professional Bowling
Forbes: Nakamoto's Neighbor: My Hunt For Bitcoin's Creator Led To A Paralyzed Crypto Genius