Laura Flanders

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name = Laura Flanders

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birth_date = born December 1961 (age 46)
birth_place = United Kingdom
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occupation = Journalist, Radio presenter, and writer
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parents = Michael Flanders and Claudia Cockburn
relatives = Stephanie Flanders (sister)
Olivia Wilde (half-cousin)
Alexander Cockburn (half-uncle)
Andrew Cockburn (half-uncle)
Patrick Cockburn (half-uncle)
Sarah Caudwell (half-aunt)
Leslie Cockburn (half-aunt by marriage)
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Laura Flanders (b. December 1961) is a British-born American journalist and currently host of the daily current events TV show "GRITtv", which is broadcast weekdays on Link TV and Free Speech TV. Her writing has appeared in "The Nation", "In These Times", "The Progressive", and "Ms. Magazine". Her work has also been on Tompaine.com and ZNet. She has also contributed Op-Ed pieces to the "San Francisco Chronicle". She is the daughter of British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders and his wife, Claudia Cockburn.

Flanders has worked in radio for many years. She hosted the radio show "Your Call" weekdays on KALW before joining Air America Radio in 2004 with the Saturday and Sunday evening program "The Laura Flanders Show". In 2007, this program, running six hours each weekend, became the weekly one-hour "Radio Nation" on Air America.

Flanders was founding director of the Women's Desk at the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), and for more than ten years she produced and hosted "CounterSpin", FAIR's nationally syndicated radio program. She has also written several books: "Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians" (2007); "Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species" (2004), a study of the women in President George W. Bush's Cabinet; and "Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting" (1997), a collection of essays. She edited "The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush" (2004).

Flanders's TV appearances include "Lou Dobbs Tonight", "The O'Reilly Factor", "Hannity and Colmes", "Washington Journal", "Donahue", "Good Morning America", and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation TV news discussion program "counterSpin". (Note that this is "not" the same "CounterSpin" as mentioned above.)

Family

BBC TV economics reporter Stephanie Flanders is her sister, British actor and comic singer Michael Flanders was her father, and journalists Alexander Cockburn, Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn are her uncles.

External links

* [http://www.lauraflanders.com Laura Flanders website]
* [http://shows.airamericaradio.com/lauraflanders/blog Flanders' Air America Radio blog]
* [http://www.aegis.org/news/wb/2005/WB050201.html Washington Blade article on Flanders and Rachel Maddow]
* [http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/639/59/ Toward Freedom article on Flanders]