Laura Flanders

Laura Flanders is the host of Grit TV the brand new news and discussion program aired daily on Free Speech TV (Dish Network channel 9415) and online at the popular blog site Firedoglake.com. For years, she has hosted RadioNation, the nationally-syndicated weekly radio program of The Nation magazine. She is also the author of Blue Grit: Making Impossible, Improbable and Inspirational Change in America (Penguin Books, 2008), an investigation into what people at the grassroots know that Democratic party leaders need to learn, and Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an expose of women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group, FAIR and for more than 10 years she produced and hosted CounterSpin. For more information and to contribute video to Grit TV go to www.grittv.org.