A segment from my Senior's March to End MTR series is included in this episode of Grit TV, thanks Sam & Laura.

Rush Limbaugh tried (and failed) to buy a football team, Obama picked a fight with FOX News, and oh yeah–there’s still ongoing debate over health care reform, two wars, and a major recession. There was plenty of bad (and a little good) to debate in this week’s media coverage.

Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, Joe Conason of The New York Observer, and Air America’s Sam Seder joined our media panel, discussing the best and worst of this week in journalism, pointing out the flaws and asking why the right wing always seems to make news, while the left can barely grab a headline.

Devinder Sharma, world-renowned food policy expert and author of GATT to WTO: Seeds of despair and In the Famine Trap,  spoke to us about the ways the West and developing nations can learn from the example of India’s “Green Revolution” in farming and the problems that have sprung up in its wake. Climate action should go hand in hand with food policy.

In West Virginia this week, at least 28 senior citizens between the ages of 50 and 88 marched in opposition to the destructive process of mountaintop removal coal mining.  In addition to environmental concerns, they stressed the union miners’ battle to get their jobs back and the fact that normal mining creates more jobs than mountaintop strip mining. The peaceful walk was 25 miles long, and was covered by many local media outlets.

Thanks to Mobile Broadcast News, Street Films, and  Greenpeace Delhi for the video in today’s show.