Laura Flanders

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Laura Flanders is an American journalist whose writing has appeared in The Nation, In These Times, The Progressive, Ms. Magazine, Tompaine.com, and ZNet. She has also contributed Op-Ed pieces to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Flanders has worked in radio for many years. She hosted the radio show Your Call weekdays on KALW before joining the weekly Radio Nation on Air America Radio in 2004.

Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and for more than ten years she produced and hosted CounterSpin, FAIR's nationally-syndicated radio program. She has also written several books: Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (2004) is a study of the women in President George W. Bush's Cabinet. The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush (2004) is a collection of essays. Flanders also authored Real Majority, Media Minority; the Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting (1997).

Flanders' TV appearances include The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity and Colmes, and CSPAN's Washington Journal, as well as the MSNBC program Donahue, Good Morning America and the Canadian news discussion program, counterSpin on CBC Television. (Note that this is not the same CounterSpin as mentioned above.)

[edit] Family

BBC TV economics reporter Stephanie Flanders is her sister, British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders was her father and journalists Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are her uncles.

[edit] External links

• Laura Flanders website
• Flanders' Air America Radio blog
• Washington Blade article on Flanders and Rachel Maddow
• Toward Freedom article on Flanders

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