LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Aumentan pedidos de renuncia de Karl Rove
• Aumentó a 52 el número de víctimas en Londres
• Bush prometió que continuaría guerra antiterrorista
• Sadr exige retiro de tropas
• Juez aprueba juicio de informantes en reconstrucción de Irak
• Atentado contra Ministro de Defensa libanés
• El mundo recuerda 10º aniversario de masacre de Srebrenica
• Suprema Corte suspendió ejecución
• Grupos convocan boicot a Exxon Mobil
• Implicado en escándalo Irán-Contras obtiene importante cargo en Pentágono

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• CPB Chief Tomlinson Comes Under Fire For Secretly Monitoring Political Content of Public Broadcasting

  
  

  The head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Kenneth Tomlinson, came under fire from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) at a Senate panel Monday for his decision to secretly monitor public television and radio programs, and about other controversial moves that have led to calls for his resignation. We play an excerpt of the hearing. [includes rush transcript]

  Escuche/Vea/Lea (en inglés)

• CPB Board Member on Fmr. RNC Chair Patricia Harrison: "We Shouldn’t Select Anyone Who Has Run One Of The National Political Parties"

  
  

  We speak with Ernest Wilson, a board member for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting about Monday’s hearing, Kenneth Tomlinson’s monitoring of the political content of public broadcasting and the hiring of former RNC co-chair Patricia Harrison as CEO of the CPB. [includes rush transcript]

  Escuche/Vea/Lea (en inglés)

• Cato vs. PBS: A Debate on Federal Funding of Public Broadcasting

  
  

  As the Senate Appropriations Committee meets this week to consider the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting we host a debate on government funding of public broadcasting with David Boaz of the Cato Institute, Bill Reed, the president of KCPT in Kansas City and Jeffrey Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy. [includes rush transcript]

  Escuche/Vea/Lea (en inglés)

• Rep. Henry Waxman on Karl Rove: "The President Said He Would Fire Anybody He Found Responsible"

  
  

  In Washington calls are intensifying for President Bush’s chief advisor Karl Rove to resign because of his role in the outing of undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame. We speak with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) who is calling for Congressional hearings into Rove’s role as well as journalist David Corn of The Nation. [includes rush transcript]

  Escuche/Vea/Lea (en inglés)