On The Listening Post this week: Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, faces the uk's Iraq war inquiry as the media faces tough questions of their own. Plus, we explore the personal fallout for one family of the massacre of 31 journalists in the Philippines.

Tony Blair faces the Iraq inquiry and we look at the personal fallout of the massacre in the Philippines for one family.

In this edition of crosstalk, Peter Lavelle discuss with his guests if China has finally started to confront the US to achieve real superpower status.

A recent poll suggests Fox News, the relentlessly rightwing channel with an aggressive commercial strategy, is the most trusted news channel in the United States.

Almost half of 1,151 registered voters in the Public Policy Polling survey said they trusted Fox News' motto, "Fair & Balanced."

The Saudi-run satellite operator Arabsat on Wednesday took off air the Arabic-language Al-Alam television network without prior notice.

The network had been off the air in November, when Arabsat and Cairo-based Nilesat dropped it without prior notification.

lol at the New York Post Our mass media in general stinks.

In this episode of Frost over the World: Al Sharpton, Dennis Kucinich and Colleen Graffy on Barack Obama's first year in office; author Amartya Sen on his new book, 'The Idea of Justice'; Quentin Tarantino on whether he will really give up making movies at 60; Anna Shevchenko on what made the Ukraine's Orange Revolution turn sour; and Barbara Cherish on her book about her father, a commandant at Auschwitz.

Media coverage of the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake and Google plans to pull out of China.