Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Sundays at 1 pm Central on AM580
Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions.
Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The media are central to all our lives," he says. "Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society."
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Sunday, July 20, 2008
Michael Perelman, economist at California State University
This week our guest is Michael Perelman. An economist at California State University, Chico, he has published 19 books, including The Confiscation of American Prosperity, Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest book is The Confiscation of American prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression.
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Tom Hayden, author, teacher, and commentator
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Sunday, July 06, 2008
Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!
This week our guest is Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 700 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its “Pick of the Podcasts,” along with NBC’s Meet the Press.
Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back (2006) and The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them (2004). She writes a weekly column (also produced as an audio podcast) syndicated by King Features, for which she was recognized in 2007 with the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Reporting.
Democracy Now! is aired Monday to Friday locally on WEFT 90.1 FM (4-5pm) and on UPTV Channel 6 (7-8am). The Democracy Now! headlines in Spanish (Titulares De Hoy) are aired on WRFU-LP 104.5FM (7:11am, 7:44am, 6:15pm) and on the Latino Radio Service 1660AM (4:30pm)
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
David Sirota, author of the New York Times best seller The Uprising
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers.
This is a pre-recorded show, so no calls are taken.
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
This week our guest is Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, most recently Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
Noam Chomsky, linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and lecturer
This week our guest is Noam Chomsky, the linguist, philosopher, political activist, author and lecturer. Chomsky is an Institute Professor and professor emeritus of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The originator of the Theory of Generative Grammar, which revolutionized the study of linguistics, Chomsky is equally - if not more - well known for his work as a social activist and critic. His work with Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent, provides an analysis of news media coverage of international affairs, resulting in a five-filter model to explain the deficienices and shortcomings of the US news media.
Among his political writings are American Power and the New Mandarins (1969), Peace in the Middle East? (1974, Profit over People (1998), and Rogue States (2000). Chomsky’s bestseller 9-11 (2002) is an analysis of the World Trade Center attack that, while denouncing the atrocity of the event, traces its origins to the actions and power of the United States, which he calls “a leading terrorist state.”
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Sunday, June 01, 2008
Jim Hightower, national radio commentator
This week our guest is Jim Hightower. National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the new book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, Hightower has spent three decades "battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks."
Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, and on Radio for Peace International. He also does a weekly video blog that is carried on many popular websites.
In the Urbana-Champaign area, Hightower's daily commentary is broadcast on WEFT 90.1 FM.
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Sunday, May 25, 2008
Arianna Huffington, syndicated columnist and founder of the popular website, the Huffington Post
This week our guest is Arianna Huffington, the author, nationally syndicated columnist, and founder of the popular website, the Huffington Post. Her most recent book is Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe.
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Janice Peck, auther of The Age of Oprah: The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era
This week our guest is Janice Peck. An Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, her research interests include critical theory, the relationship of media and society, the social meanings and political implications of mediated popular culture, communication history and theories of media and culture.
She is author of a book on the history and politics of religious television in the U.S., The Gods of Televangelism: The Crisis of Meaning and the Appeal of Religious Television (1993) and a forthcoming book The Age of Oprah: The Making of a Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era, an examination of examination of the place of Oprah Winfrey's media enterprise in the last quarter century of U.S. culture and politics (in press).
She has published articles and book chapters on the theoretical and intellectual history of cultural studies, issues in media theory, the family and television, TV talk shows, Oprah's Book Club and issues of literacy, religion and advertising, and representations of race in media.
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Paul Waldman, co-author with David Brock of Free Ride: John McCain and the Media
This week our guest is Paul Waldman, co-author with David Brock of Free Ride: John McCain and the Media. A writer and Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America his previous book is Being Right Is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservative Success.
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Janine Jackson of media watchdog FAIR
This week our guest is Janine Jackson of media watchdog FAIR. Jackson is FAIR's program director and a frequent contributor to FAIR's magazine, Extra!. She co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press), and she co-hosts and produces FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin--a weekly program of media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the country.
Counterspin can be heard in the Urbana-Champaign area on WILL and WEFT:
WILL 580 AM - Thursday 10:30 pm
WEFT 90.1 FM - Mon. 5:30 pm
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Patrick Cockburn, journalist
This week our guest is journalist Patrick Cockburn. He has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979, previously for the Financial Times and currently for The Independent. Cockburn has written four books on Iraq. Two, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession, were written with his brother Andrew Cockburn prior to the war in Iraq. Two more were written by Patrick alone after the U.S. invasion, following his award- winning reporting from Iraq.
His most recent book is Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival,and the Struggle for Iraq.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Norman Solomon, author
This week our guest is Norman Solomon, author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (October 2007).
A familiar voice for Media Matters listeners, Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He is founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts, and has been writing the weekly Media Beat column since 1992.
Solomon's book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death was published in 2005. The Los Angeles Times called the book "brutally persuasive" and "a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come." A documentary based on the book was released in 2007.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Joeseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate
This week our guest is Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel medal winning economist, and former vice-President and chief economist of the World Bank. He is the author, most recently, of The Three-Trillion Dollar War.
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, & Naomi Wolf
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Ishmael Reed, poet, essaying, and novelist
This week our guest is Ishmael Reed, the poet, essayist and novelist. Since 1990 he has edited Konch magazine, available online since 1998, a "publication for the rest of us" that concentrates on "publishing writers from the world over who address the important issues of our time."
Reed's best-known works include The Free-Lance Pallbearers (1967, Reed's first novel), Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969), Mumbo Jumbo (1972), Flight to Canada (1976), The Last Days of Louisiana Red (1974), Reckless Eyeballing (1986), and Japanese By Spring (1993). He has published more than a dozen books, including nine novels, four collections of poetry, six plays, four collections of essays, and one libretto. His New and Collected Poems, 1964-2007, received the Commonwealth Club of Califfornia's Gold Medal.
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Sunday, March 23, 2008
FCC Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein on regulating the media industry
Our guest was FCC commissioner Jonathan Adelstein. Adelstein has been with the FCC since 2002. Before joining the FCC, Adelstein served for fifteen years as a staff member in the United States Senate. For the last seven years, he was a senior legislative aide to United States Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), where he advised Senator Daschle on telecommunications, financial services, transportation and other key issues.
A life-long public servant, Adelstein has dedicated his career to fighting for the public interest. As a Commissioner, his approach is guided by the key principle that the public interest means securing access to communications for everyone, including those the market may leave behind.
Adelstein is a particularly strong advocate for media diversity and localism, and works diligently to encourage increased voices on the airwaves to support a well-informed citizenry. He has worked to promote access to telecommunications and media outlets by minorities, rural and low-income consumers, people with disabilities, and non- English speakers.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
The Economy and Public Policy, with Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
This week our guest is Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic policy.
He writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. His opinion pieces have appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and most major U.S. newspapers. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.
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Sunday, March 09, 2008
Greg Mitchell, author of So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed in Iraq
This week our guest is Greg Mitchell, the editor of Editor & Publisher. His latest book is called So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the President -- Failed in Iraq (Union Square Press). It includes a preface by Bruce Springsteen and a foreword by war reporter Joseph L.Galloway.
Over the past five years, Mitchell's weekly column “Pressing Issues,” has intensely scrutinized the coverage of the Iraq war, the media’s views of the credibility of the Bush Administration, and such related topics as 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the CIA Leak Case. Now, as the war in Iraq reaches its 5th anniversary, this first-ever collection, with more than 75 of Mitchell’s columns, provides a unique history of the conflict, from the hyped WMD stories to the “surge."
Mitchell has written eight books, including Hiroshima in America (with Robert Jay Lifton) and The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of Media Politics, and his articles have appeared in dozens of leading newspapers and magazines.
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- So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--And the President--Failed on Iraq at Amazon.com
Sunday, March 02, 2008
Alex Gibney, 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature for his film Taxi to the Dark Side
This week our guest is Alex Gibney, 2008 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature for his film Taxi to the Dark Side. Gibney received his first Academy Award nomination for "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," which he wrote, produced and directed. Taxi to the Dark Side, which was filmed in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and various U.S. locations, is Gibney's directorial follow-up to "Enron" and made its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
At the Sundance Film Festival this year, Gibney premiered another documentary feature he directed about Hunter Thomspon entitled "Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" and which will be released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures.
Taxi to the Dark Side is an investigation into the reckless abuse of power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of human rights.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Glen Ford, executive director of Black Agenda Report
This week our guest is Glen Ford, executive director of Black Agenda Report. He has extensive experience in radio and television, where he launched influential programming like America's Black Forum, the first nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial television, and Rap It Up. Ford co-founded BlackCommentator.com (BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most influential Black political site on the Net. In October, 2006, Ford and others left BC to launch BlackAgendaReport.com.
In addition to his broadcast and Internet experience, Glen Ford was national political columnist for Encore American & Worldwide News magazine; founded The Black Commentator and Africana Policies magazines; authored The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S. Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion (IOJ, 1985); and served as reporter and editor for three newspapers (two daily, one weekly).
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Naomi Wolf, the noted feminist and author of The Beauty Myth
This week our guest is Naomi Wolf, the noted feminist and author. "The Beauty Myth," her first book, was an international bestseller. She followed that with "Fire With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st Century" and "Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood." Several other books followed.
Her most recent book is "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" in which she explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile.
She is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, an organization devoted to training young women in ethical leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches professional development in the arts and media, politics and law, business and entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Juan Gonzalez, columnist for New York Daily News, and co-host of Democracy Now!
This week our guest is Juan Gonzalez, co-host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by Gonzalez and Amy Goodman. Gonzalez has also been a columnist at the New York Daily News since 1988. He has won numerous awards for his investigative reporting including the George Polk Award in 1998 and was recently elected President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Juan’s most recent book Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse documents cover-ups by Environmental Protection Agency and government officials about health hazards at Ground Zero in New York. He is also the author of the book, Harvest of Empire: The History of Latinos in America.
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Sunday, February 03, 2008
Stephen Kinzer, author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq
This week our guest is Stephen Kinzer. Kinzer is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. His books include Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq and All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
On Sunday February 17, at 3pm in the University YMCA (Champaign, IL, Kinzer will speak as part of a national speaking tour organized by Just Foreign Policy, The Folly of Attacking Iran. Other dates and venues are available here:
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
David Sirota, author of The Uprising
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist and bestselling author living in Denver. He is widely known for his
reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America’s political parties.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Kathryn Montgomery, professor at American University
This week our guest is Kathryn Montgomery. Montgomery is a professor in the Public Communication division of the School of Communication at American University in Washington DC and heads the Center’s Youth, Media and Democracy project. For 12 years, she was President of the DC-based Center for Media Education (CME), which she co-founded in 1991. During her tenure at CME, Montgomery’s research, publications, and testimony helped frame the national public policy debate on a range of critical media issues. She led a coalition of child advocacy, health, and education groups in a series of successful advocacy campaigns, leaving behind a legacy of policies on behalf of children and families. They include: a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring a minimum of three hours per week of educational/informational television programming for children; a
content-based ratings system for TV programs; and the first federal legislation to protect children’s privacy on the Internet.
Montgomery is the author of Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet, available from MIT Press.
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Hadani Ditmars, author of Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq
This week our guest is journalist Hadani Ditmars, author of Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's Journey Through Iraq.
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Sunday, January 06, 2008
Sut Jhally, Professor at University of Massachusetts
This week our guest is Sut Jhally. Jhally is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation. He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at the role played by advertising and popular culture in the processes of social control and identity construction. The author of numerous books and articles on media(including The Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an award-winning teacher.
He is best known as the producer and director of a number of films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender, sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born in Kenya, raised in England, educated in graduate studies in Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
John Nichols, contributor to The Nation
This week our guest is regular guest John Nichols, with a live review of the year. Nichols writes about politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens of other newspapers.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
Francis Boyle, Professor at University of Illinois
This week our guest is Prof. Francis Boyle. Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and Harvard Law School.
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
Paul Krugman, Professor at Princeton University
This week our guest is Paul Krugman. Krugman is currently a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is also an author and a columnist for The New York Times, writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the newspaper since 2000. His most recent book is The Conscience of a Liberal.
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Sunday, December 09, 2007
Chris Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
This week our guest is Chris Finan. Finan is president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE), the bookseller's voice in the fight against censorship. Chris has been involved in the fight against censorship since 1982. He is chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship and a trustee of the Freedom to Read Foundation.
A native of Cleveland, Chris is a graduate of Antioch College. After working as a newspaper reporter, he studied American history at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1992. He is the author most recently of From the Palmer Raids to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America (Beacon Press, May 2007).
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
Robert Kuttner, editor-in-chief of The American Prospect
This week our guest is Robert Kuttner. Kuttner is the co-founder and current editor-in-chief of The American Prospect. He writes regularly for the magazine on political and economic issues. He is the author of the newly released book The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Knopf, November 2007).
Kuttner is also the author of six previous books: Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997); The End of Laissez- Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic Illusion (1984); Revolt of the Haves (1980); and Family Re-union (2002), co- authored with his late wife, Sharland Trotter. His syndicated weekly editorial column originates in The Boston Globe and appears Mondays on the Prospect website.
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Lance Bennett, Professor at University of Washington
This week our guest is Lance Bennett. Bennett is a Professor of Communication at the University of Washington. He is also founder and director of the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement. The Center is dedicated to understanding how communication processes and technologies can enhance citizen engagement with social life, politics, and global affairs.
Bennett is author or editor of ten books, including News: The Politics of Illusion, (Longman, 7th ed.). His most recent book is When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina (Chicago, with Regina Lawrence and Steven Livingston).
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Sunday, November 18, 2007
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
This week our guest is Naomi Klein. Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, is an international bestseller and was published worldwide in September 2007.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Tariq Ali, author of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope
This week our guest is Tariq Ali. Ali is a novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors. He is the author of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006), Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003), and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity (2002).
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Sunday, November 04, 2007
Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote
This week our guest is Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote, a non-profit organization acting to transform American elections to achieve equal access to participation, a full spectrum of meaningful choices and majority rule with fair representation and a voice for all. He is co-author of Every Vote Equal about establishing a national popular vote for president and Whose Votes Count, about proportional voting for American elections.
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Sunday, October 28, 2007
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation
This week our guest is Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004) and, most recently, editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms, (NationBooks, 2005). Her weblog for thenation.com is "Editor's Cut."
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Bill Fletcher, writer and activist
This week our guest is Bill Fletcher. A contributor to the Black Commentator website, and a labor and international writer and activist, Fletcher is the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum.
