This week on CounterSpin: What are renewables and why are media telling us so little about them? With energy prices rising, and a nuclear disaster still unfolding in Japan, it would seem to be the perfect time to talk about renewable energy sources, like solar, wind and geothermal. But this hasn’t been the case. Independent journalist Miranda Spencer talks about how the media dismiss alternative forms of energy that are safer, cleaner and cheaper, but apparently still less journalistically viable than petroleum, nuclear and coal.

Also information on Joe Barton’s distortions; the real truth regarding who want the US to stay in Iraq–the US military; the low-down on Gingrich and his ideas; and more.