A weekly review of news at the intersection of media and democracy.

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In this week's program: Controversy over the leadership at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its crusade to make PBS and NPR look and sound more like Fox News is heating up on Capitol Hill, while conservative pundits go apoplectic over Bill Moyers' perspective on the problem.

UK (can be played right before the previous one)

What is the UK government doing in relation to these companies?

Corporations

Who benefit from these policies?

Is drilling and mining the only way of development?

Friends of the Earth underlines that aid is not the most important thing to help these countries.

There needs to be another model of development, different from the world bank and the international monetary fund, and that being in favour of life means to be against the model of the financial institutions.

Mark Curtis, from Word Development Movement, explains what the UK government has to do with this all

Human rights abuses surround oil drilling.