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Laura Flanders on Journalism of Engagement

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Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders

This week on CounterSpin: This week is one for the books, as a grand jury refused to charge any of the police officers responsible for killing Breonna Taylor with her murder, the president said he would not commit to a peaceful transition of power should he lose the election, and states continued plans to reopen, even as cases of Covid-19 are starting back up again.

The news often feels overwhelming. And overwhelm doesn't generally encourage action. News media may not control what happens in the world, but the way they show it to us has a real impact on how we feel about it, and on what we think we can do about it.

Laura Flanders, the original host of CounterSpin and the former director of the Women's Desk at FAIR, practices a kind of journalism that's meant to encourage engagement, not just in the stories it tells, but in the people who tell them.  The Laura Flanders Show is now moving to a bigger platform; it'll be airing on public TV stations around the country. A propos of that, we'll talk with her about what she hopes the show can achieve.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at climate questions for the upcoming debates, and democracy as "Armageddon."

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