This week, debates regarding national security focused attention not on bombings, terrorism and war… but on Wall Street --- as major financial institutions have been rocked, some collapsing, with severe fallout in economies around the world; from China, to India, to Brazil, Europe and Canada…national banking systems are seething at the United States. Has the media cast a international net on this global debacle? Is fear of loss of advertising revenue coloring the financial coverage here at home? And on the election front...continued tensions between McCain and the media: investigations of Sarah Palin are stepped up, AND the conservative press discovers "sexism."

Every week here on GRITtv, we invite a panel of journalists in to the studio to talk about the job their profession’s been doing . This week we welcome Aaron Glantz, journalist with Pacifica Radio and Interpress Service and author of Winter Soldier & The War Comes Home. Maria Hinajosa, is senior correspondent on PBS’ NOW, Anchor and managing editor of NPR's Latino USA as well as Anchor of Emmy Award winning PBS talk show "One on One w/Maria Hinojosa." Tonight, PBS will air her documentary “Women, Leadership and Politics: A Rising Tide?”; Finally, Ian Williams, is the Senior Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus and a regular columnist for the Guardian Online.