seeing this all throughout the country there was another case of mississippi a woman by the name of rainey did who is accused of murder and faces a life sentence because she delivered a baby at thirty six weeks and it was a stillborn so you're seeing this all throughout the country and it's beyond egregious and what i'm amazed by is that this story is not being reported by u.s. media it's it was a story that broke by the guardian which is a publication in the u.k. firedoglake wrote about it but other than that you're not hearing about it anyway anywhere else why is that it just it drives you crazy yeah i know you make a really good point there because it was the guardian that originally wrote about and they said america is in an uproar over this story but if you look around nobody is in an uproar because nobody is actually covering it but you know i think it gets into this weird murky gray area when it comes to the legality i mean what do you think if a woman is doing drugs while she's pregnant does that count as murder then kills the baby or should she be allowed to try to kill herself wi

its i'm jim rainey, the mediaim columnist for the "los angeles times" or i would be on the media column twice a week and ii also blog for the times and tweaked and to all those other a things that we all have to do in today's new media landscape. so i've got a couple of announcements to make your to t. start out. the first one is a standard please silence your cell phones so that especially because we are being recorded we don't wane to pick up a lot of noise. lot of weeding. there is a book signing following the session. you make 17 left. and a right. and your maps should have that. and you are not supposed to be recording this because c-span is recording this and you can get what you need from c-span. what i am going to do is introduce our speakers, get the discussion going and if everybody looks like they are with us we will take questions for the last 15 minutes or so of the session. we have got a really interesting panel here and a really interesting topic. the title they have chosen is "inconvenient truths". i have three books we will be discussing. we are coming to this panel at