It’s been all about Obama this week and that may reveal something about the way the news is or isn’t covered in the United States. There were, however, a lot of big stories. Swine flu stokes right wing anti-immigration rhetoric. The elite consensus continues to argue that we need to move on when it comes to torture. And is Arlen Specter’s defection really good for the Democratic Party?

Daphne Eviatar, Legal Correspondent for The Washington Independent, Mark Ames, journalist and founder of the eXile, now the Exiled Online, and Kate Clinton look at the media coverage of the past week.

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