Political satirist, Jon Stewart, gets into how ineffective the media can be when it comes to protecting its own interests. 
 

While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly).

The Mumbai attacks have left India in a state of shock. The demand for political accountability has already seen the resignation of a few high level politicians. With the world's largest democracy in such a vulnerable state, how can these acts be stopped in an age of 'celebrity terrorism'?

Few people pay attention to Canadian politics at the best of times, so it should be no surprise that the U.S. Obama-McCain dustup has utterly overshadowed the October 14 Canadian federal election.