Ari Berman on Rigging Elections, Dean Baker on the Debt Bogeyman
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This week on CounterSpin: With the presidential election in sight, Donald Trump is now claiming that if he doesn’t win, the thing must be rigged. It’s concerning that his supporters may believe that, but also concerning that others might imagine that the fact that Trump mentions the idea of voting improprieties must mean there is no such thing. Ari Berman has been following voting rights for years; he’s a senior contributing writer at The Nation and author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. We’ll talk with him about voting in 2016.
(Gary Varvel, Indianapolis Star)
Also on the show: Explosive entitlement spending! Runaway national debt! These are familiar bogeymen for elite media, but how much there is there? Dean Baker will join us to unpack the oft-heard media phrase “debt and entitlements,” and explain what it really means to call for cutting them. He’s co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and writes the blog Beat the Press.
That’s coming up, but first a very quick look back at recent press, including questions not asked at the debates and Amy Goodman vindicated in North Dakota.
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