The subject matter was serious, but the criticisms of the President’s second news conference were mostly about his style, not substance. David Letterman’s critique was right on target: where were these reporters for the last eight years? Now the commander-in-chief is going live and direct to people via online chat. We’ll see if the grilling is tougher. Also in the news, as papers fail from coast to coast,a Maryland Senators proposing that newspapers be allowed to operate as nonprofits?

Today’s panel is Katrina Vanden Huevel, publisher and editor in chief of the Nation magazine and Robert George of the New York Post, You can read his blogs and thoughts at Ragged thots.com, Danny Schechter of Newsdissector.org and the author of Plunder. Enjoy the show.

Also, an interview with Jeremy Deller, Nato Thompson, Jonathan Harvey, and Esam Pasha about the beginning of their art project, It Is What it Is: Conversations About Iraq, produced with Creative Time.

If sorting the spin and touring the country talking about Iraq wasn’t enough, we saw what it was like as working people did a tour of shame checking out the greedy AIG bonus fiends’ homes with ACORN and The Working Families Party, heard some vibrant poetry from Grit Favorite Remi Kanazi (editor of Poets for Palestine), and then stopped by the antiwar protest at the Pentagon with the Real News. Robert Johnson, former chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee, gave his two cents on stimulating the economy!

Today’s Got Doc was �The Jerome Bowden Story,� being produced by Mark Harris and Paula Caplan. It is harrowing story of Jerome Bowden, who in 1976 in Columbus, GA, was wrongfully convicted of murder and later executed. His execution started a tidal wave of states to ban the execution of those with mental handicapped. Even as the Supreme Court has ruled since that such executions are unconstitional, they still persist, and the documentary is hoping to explore these issues through the painful story of Jerome Bowden’s family.

Thanks to Lisa S. and the Real News for video in tonight’s show.