On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we discuss media coverage of Kevin McCarthy’s ouster as the speaker of the House initiated by eight far-right members of his own party. McCarthy’s 269-day reign as speaker was ended by a 216-210 vote.
How is the media covering the extremists' takeover of the GOP?
We also talk about the new session of the Supreme Court. The justices will examine important cases on major issues such as free speech, gun rights, abortion, voting rights, and a case that could threaten the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and potentially numerous other federal agencies.
Guests:
Mark Jacob, freelance writer, former metro editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, and author of the website Stop the Presses
John Nichols, national-affairs correspondent for The Nation and the co-author of It's OK to be Angry About Capitalism
Chris Geidner, award winning legal journalist, author and publisher of the website Law Dork
Web Resources:
The Nation: The 'Trump for Speaker' Campaign Shipwrecks on the Shoals of Stupidity
The New York Times: From a Capitol Hill Basement, Bannon Stokes the Republican Party Meltdown
The Washington Post: Inside the spending cuts House Republicans are fighting for
The Guardian: Abortion, guns, democracy: US rights at stake as supreme court term begins
