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Meet the Press June 24, 2012 (NBC)

The mainstream news program, Meet the Press June 24, 2012 (NBC), focused primarily on some of the different views about the most important needs of the nation between Republicans and Democrats. More specifically, the moderator raised the issues of racial profiling laws in various states, immigration policy reform, the potential consequences of a pending Supreme Court decision on President Obama's Affordable Care Act that has been the source of so much conflict in political circles since the first months of the current presidential administration. Other topics of discussion included the national budget in connection with the need to generate revenue, the current conflict over the "Fast and Furious" debacle and the bizarre allegations leveled against the U.S. Attorney General, and predictions about the different challenges faced by the respective presidential campaigns of President Obama and the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney.

Democracy Now June 22, 2012

The independent/non-commercial newscast, Democracy Now June 22, 2012 (Democracynow.com) covered the announcement...

It also covered the controversy in Bolivia in connection with the U.N. speech of the Bolivian president about regional ecological responsibility, and the status of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The feature story of the newscast was that of Anthony Graves, interviewed in connection with his release from the death row in Texas after 18 years of incarceration including 10 years of solitary confinement. That particular story was presented as both an issue of criminal justice reform (in that it detailed the tragedy of erroneous conviction and imprisonment) and also as an issue of human interest (in that it highlights the inhumane conditions in which death inmates are routinely held). Former inmate Graves testified emotionally before Congress about the degradation and loss of any sense of individualism on death row in Texas.
Other stories covered by the non-commercial newscast included the current conflict in Egypt in connection with the national elections results, President Obama's recent speech imploring American college students to participate in the political debate surrounding the imminent expiration of federal tuition funding, and a recent Supreme Court decision invalidating the sentencing discrepancy between criminal sentences for crack cocaine and powdered cocaine.

The broadcast also…