Dean Hapshe Videos

Why aren't reporters asking the real questions? That's what our media panelist Rose Aguilar asked today, and it's a valid question. With the Stupak amendment and the Fort Hood shootings, new unemployment numbers in the double digits and questions over troop escalation in Afghanistan, not to mention the resignation of embattled CNN host Lou Dobbs, there was a lot to cover this week. Every Thursday, we look at the way the stories of the day get told, point out the problems and offer some solutions with a variety of media makers.Rose Aguilar, of Your Call Radio and author of Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland , John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine and author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America , Dan Gross, columnist at Newsweek and author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation , and Hendrik Hertzberg of The New Yorker and author of OB MANOS!: The Rise of a New Political Era look at the media's biggest hits and misses of the past week. Yoga is slow medicine but it is medicinal in character," Deirdre Summerbell says. She's the founder of Project Air, where she uses yoga to help women and girls in Rwanda, survivors of the genocide, reconnect with their bodies and heal their spirits. Summerbell joined us in the GRITtv studio to talk about her project and her plans to expand it into the Congo and other areas of the world, like Gaza and Afghanistan.Last December, videojournalist Jennifer Utz and Mohamed, an Iraqi refugee, joined us at GRITtv to talk about Mohamed's journey from Iraq to the U.S.

Environmental journalist Karl Grossman gets the dirt on solar energy from Dean Hapshe of Majestic Son & Sons Solar Energy. Since the Reagan years, where government tax credits for installing solar panels were killed, we've come a long way as far as efficiency and costs are concerned. In New York, on top of the federal tax credit recently passed in the stimulus bill, you can get a state and local tax credit for installing the panels--and then it's possible to produce more than enough energy to run your whole home. Learn more in this video exclusive for GRITtv.