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, October 05, 2008
Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research, author of the CEPR report "The United States and the World: Where Are We Headed?"
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, authors of The Nation article "Bridge Loan to Nowhere"
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, authors of The Nation article "Bridge Loan to Nowhere"
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Sunday, September 21, 2008
Political journalist David Sirota, author of The Uprising
David Sirota is a political journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. As one of the only national columnists living and reporting outside of Washington, D.C., he is widely known for his coverage of political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine
This week our guest is Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine, one of the leading voices for peace and social justice in this country. Rothschild is also the author of a book entitled You Have No Rights: Stories of America in Our Repressive Age (New Press, 2007). A graduate of Harvard University, Rothschild prior to coming to The Progressive worked as the editor of Multinational Monitor, a magazine founded by Ralph Nader.
Rothschild also hosts Progressive Radio, a syndicated weekly half-hour program, and he does radio commentaries Monday through Friday. Rothschild is also the co-founder and director of The Progressive Media Project, which since 1993 has been distributing opinion pieces to newspapers around the country in an effort to diversify and democratize the national debate.
Progressive Radio is available in Urbana-Champaign on WRFU (104.5FM), Thursdays at 4:30pm, and Rothschild's radio commentaries run on the station daily in the 4pm hour.
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Sunday, September 07, 2008
Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of media ecology at New York University
This week our guest is Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of media ecology at New York University (NYU). Miller is author of Loser Take All: Election Fraud and The Subversion of Democracy, Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), and The Bush Dyslexicon, among other titles.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Alexander Cockburn, editor of Counterpunch
This week our guest is Alexander Cockburn, editor, with Jeffrey St. Clair, of Counterpunch. Cockburn also writes the "Beat the Devil" column for The Nation and a weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times as well as for The First Post.
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Sunday, August 24, 2008
Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
This week our guest is Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It. Durham's work centers on media and the politics of the body, with an emphasis on gender, sexuality, race, and youth cultures. Her work has appeared in leading academic journals, including Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, and Women's Studies in Communication. She is the co-editor, with Douglas M. Kellner, of Media and Cultural Studies: KeyWorks.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States
This week our guest is Dave Zirin. Zirin, Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year, has been called "an icon in the world of progressive sports" and Robert Lipsyte says he is "the best young sportswriter in the United States." His column, Edge of Sports, appears on Sports Illustrated’s website, si.com. He is also the host of XM satellite’s weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio.
Zirin is, in addition, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, the Progressive, and the Philadelphia Weekly; a contributor to the Nation Magazine, and a regular op-ed writer for The Los Angeles Times.
Zirin’s next book, out this summer, is A People's History of Sports in the United States, part of Howard Zinn's People's History series for the New Press. He is also the author of Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports (with a foreword by the immortal Chuck D.). His first book What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Haymarket Books) has entered its second printing and is available in stores and at haymarketbooks.org. He is also the author of The Muhammad Ali Handbook, published for MQ Publications.
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
This week our guest is Thomas Frank. Well-known author of What's the Matter with Kansas and Commodifying Dissent, Frank has recently been appointed a columnist at the Wall Street Journal. His new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, has just been released on Metropolitan Books.
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Sunday, August 03, 2008
Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media & News
This week our guest is Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media & News (WIMN), a national media analysis, education and advocacy group. Pozner founded Women In Media & News in 2001 to increase women's presence and power in the public debate through media analysis, education, advocacy and reform.
A widely published journalist and media critic, Pozner formerly directed the Women's Desk at the national media watch group FAIR, where she was a staff writer for Extra! magazine and the organizer of the national Feminist Coalition on Public Broadcasting. She also served as Media Watch columnist and contributing media editor for Sojourner: The Women's Forum.
Her essays have appeared in anthologies such as What Do We Do Now (a post-2004 election manifesto); The W Effect: Bush’s War on Women; Catching a Wave: Reclaiming Feminism for the 21st Century; Uncovering the Right on Campus; and Points and CounterPoints: Controversial Family and Relationship Issues in the 21st Century.
