In this edition of the Journal, Bill Moyers is joined by NPR’s Brooke Gladstone and NYU journalism professor and PressThink blogger Jay Rosen to sort out the messages and spin regarding the media frenzy over U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and the swiftboating of healthcare reform. Also, Moyers and award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill examine the total costs—financial, political, and human—of America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq: profiteering by government-hired contractors, the expanded use of soldiers-for-hire, noncombatant deaths due to U.S. bombing, and more. Broadcast date: June 5, 2009. (53 minutes)