Media Bites – Bush/Clinton Haiti Ad
February 2, 2010
In this week’s Media Bites we look at a recent public service announcement with former President’s Bush and Clinton asking for people to donate to their Haiti Relief fund. We take a critical look at the history of US policy towards Haiti, particularly during the Clinton and Bush years, something the mainstream news media has not done during the disaster coverage of Haiti since the earthquake.
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Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy 
The Agronomist is a good movie to rent about Haiti.
Roger Ebert – “Jean Dominique was a brave man in a dangerous country, and Jonathan Demme’s “The Agronomist” shows him telling the truth as he sees it, day after day, on the radio in Haiti. It is obvious that sooner or later, he will be assassinated. Dissent cannot be tolerated in a nation that depends on secrecy to protect its powerful. What is remarkable is how long he survived, and how courageously he owned and operated Radio Haiti-Inter; it became the voice of the powerless in great part because it broadcast in Creole, the language they spoke, instead of in the French of their masters.”