On the December 5th, 2014 edition of Your Call, it’s our Friday media roundtable. This week, we’ll talk about news coverage of protest -- from Ferguson to New York, from Egypt to Hong Kong. We'll be joined Jadaliyya’s Adel Iskander in Cairo, long-time China reporter Mary Kay Magistad and Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts. Join us on the next Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.
Guests:
Leonard Pitts, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist with the Miami Herald
Adel Islander, assistant professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, and a co-editor of Jadaliyya web magazine.
MaryKay Magistad, former East Asia correspondent for PRI/BBC's The World, and former China & SE Asia correspondent for NPR
Web Resources:
Dallas Morning News: An understanding of white privilege is only two clicks away
NY Times: Another Mass Death Sentence in the ‘New’ Egypt
Jadaliyya: Q&A: The Mubarak Trial Verdict – What Just Happened?
Washington Post: The battle for Hong Kong’s future, captured in one powerful image
COLORLINES: The Ugly Idea That Killed Eric Garner
PRI: Beijing's usual playbook of control won't work in Hong Kong
Slate: If It Happened There: Courts Sanction Killings by U.S. Security Forces