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.
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication 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, August 01, 2010
Lawrence Lessig joins Bob on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Lawrence Lessig is a director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of law at Harvard Law School. Prior to rejoining Harvard, he was a professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. Lessig is a founding board member of Creative Commons, a board member of the Software Freedom Law Center and a former board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Lawrence Lessig talks with Bob McChesney Sunday at 1pm.
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Sunday, July 25, 2010
"Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century" - Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University
Lee C. Bollinger became the nineteenth President of Columbia University on June 1, 2002. A prominent advocate of affirmative action, he played a leading role in the twin Supreme Court cases—Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger—that upheld and clarified the importance of diversity as a compelling justification for affirmative action in higher education. A leading First Amendment scholar, he is widely published on freedom of speech and press, and currently serves on the faculty of Columbia Law School. Bollinger and McChesney discuss Bollinger's new book, "Uninhibited, Robust and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century" http://www.columbia.edu/cu/president/docs/bio
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
McChesney and Charlie Pierce a NPR regular discuss his new book "Idiot America"
Call and comment. McChesney and Charlie Pierce familiar to NPR listeners from shows "Only a Game" and "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" discuss Pierce's new book called "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free." Call 333-9455 to join the conversation Sunday.
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Bob McChesney and Juliet Schor discuss "Plentitude: The New Economics of True Wealth."
Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. Before joining Boston College, she taught at Harvard University for 17 years, in the Department of Economics and the Committee on Degrees in Women’s Studies. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Schor received her Ph.D. in economics at the University of Massachusetts. Schor is currently working on issues of environmental sustainability and their relation to Americans’ lifestyles and the economy and the emergence of a conscious consumption movement. She is a co-founder and co-chair of the Board of the Center for a New American Dream, a national sustainability organization. julietschor.org
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Sunday, July 04, 2010
A special encore recording featuring the late Howard Zinn
Bob interviewed Howard Zinn in October 2008. Howard Zinn was the author of A People's History of the United States, among many works. Zinn was an acclaimed historian and political scientist, and was active in Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States for many years. Listen to this special encore show on Sunday, July 4th.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Pledge Drive Show with John Nichols and Terry Gross
Join Bob and John Nichols Sunday for our pledge drive edition of Media Matters with Bob McChesney. Call (217)244-9455 to help us reach our goal of fifty calls. WILL is $185,000 away from it's annual fund raising goal and will try to close the gap with a special pledge drive beginning Thursday. The drive will end with Media Matters on Sunday. Thank You gifts include McChesney and Nichols' “The Death and Life of American Journalism” at $60, “The Political Economy of Media” for a pledge of $60 and both books for a pledge of $100. We also have a special thank you gift from Terry Gross. It’s a 3 CD set titled “Writer’s Speak” at the $80 pledge level. Join Media Matters with Bob McChesney on Sunday, June 27th or pledge now at willpledge.org.
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot and Bob discuss "South of the Border"
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He has written numerous research papers on economic policy, especially on Latin America and international economic policy. He is also co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
He writes a weekly column for The Guardian Unlimited (U.K.), and a regular column on economic and policy issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. He also writes a column for Brazil’s largest newspaper, Folha de Sao Paulo. His opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and almost every major U.S. newspaper. He appears regularly on national and local television and radio programs. He is also president of Just Foreign Policy. Listen while he and Bob discuss Mark Weisbrot's collaboration with Oliver Stone on the film "South of the Border."
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
Stephen Kinzer and Bob discuss RESET: Iran, Turkey and America's Future
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. His articles and books have led the Washington Post to place him "among the best in popular foreign policy storytelling. "RESET: Iran, Turkey,and America's Future" is his latest book. LIsten and join the conversation with Bob and Stephen Kinzer on Media Matters with Bob McChesney Sunday at 1pm.
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Sunday, June 06, 2010
Alex Gibney - Filmmaker talks with Bob about "Casino Jack"
Alex Gibney is the founder of Jigsaw Productions. An Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award-winning producer, he is well known for producing one of the top grossing documentaries of all time, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.” In addition, Gibney is sought after for his experience in mounting large international productions, particularly multi-part series, such as Martin Scorsese’s Emmy and Grammy award-winning “The Blues” and David Halberstam’s “The Fifties.”
An accomplished writer and director in his own right, Gibney is the leading creative force behind many of Jigsaw’s productions and is well known for crafting stories that take an unflinching look at the political landscape of America. His work as a writer/director includes: the 2008 Oscar-winning film "Taxi to the Dark Side," the 2006 Oscar-nominated film “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room,” and the current Magnolia Pictures release, “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson,” featuring Johnny Depp. Call (800)244-9455 to join the conversation.
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
William Ayers, author of "To Teach" on Sunday, May 30th
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament. A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Bank Street College of Education, Bennington College, and Teachers College, Columbia University, Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. He is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association, and a member of the executive committee of the UIC Faculty Senate.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Media Matters Hosts Janine Jackson
*Repeat program from January 31st, 2010*
Janine 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.
Jackson has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She has appeared on ABC's Nightline, CNBC's Inside Business and CNN Headline News, among other outlets. This is a pre-recorded program.
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
Laura Flanders of GRITtv on Sunday, May 16th
Laura Flanders is the host of "GRITtv"* the new, daily, news-discussion and take action program seen on Free Speech TV and online at the popular blog site Firedoglake.com as wel as at GRITtv.org. She also serves as the host of RadioNation, the nationally-syndicated weekly radio program of the Nation Magazine.
Flanders is also the author of Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians (Penguin Books, 2007), an investigation into what people at the grassroots know that Democratic party leaders could learn, and BUSHWOMEN: Tales of a Cynical Species (Verso, 2004), an expose of women in George W. Bush's Cabinet. Publisher's Weekly called Flanders' New York Times best-seller, "fierce, funny and intelligent."
She wrote on Hillary Clinton in The Contenders (Seven Stories Press, 2007) and edited The W Effect: Sexual Politics in the Age of Bush, in 2004 for the Feminist Press. Let Bob and Laura do the work as you sit back and listen to their conversation.
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