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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Media Matters programs & archives:
Sunday, August 11, 2002
Craig Aaron, managing editor of In These Times
Craig Aaron, managing editor of In These Times, a national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago.
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Sunday, July 28, 2002
Walter Harrington and Leon Dash
Race, Bias, and Journalism with Walter Harrington and Leon Dash. A professor in the UIUC department of journalism, Harrington was a reporter for the Washington Post before coming to U of I. Leon Dash is a professor in the U of I Department of Journalism, and was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Washington Post.
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Sunday, July 21, 2002
Carrie McLaren and Gary Ruskin
The Media And Commercialism with Carrie McLaren and Gary Ruskin. McLaren self-publishes Stay Free!, a magazine about American media and consumer culture. She works at the Berkeley Carroll School, and is also the curator of the upcoming Illegal Art exhibit, which looks at the effect of copyright law on freedom of expression. Ruskin is executive director of Commercial Alert, which he co-founded with Ralph Nader. He is also director of the Congressional Accountability Project, which opposes corruption in the U.S. Congress. He is author of Why They Whine: How Corporations Prey on Our Children, Bush's War on Children, and Let's Keep Advertising and Market Research out of the Classroom.
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Sunday, July 14, 2002
Sut Jhally, Professor
Media Education with Sut Jhally. Jhally is well known for his controversial and award-winning film Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video (over which MTV threatened to sue). The Los Angeles Times called the film "a scathing examination of pop video's use and abuse of women." As the founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation he is also the producer of another dozen films dealing with issues from commercialism and popular culture to violence and gender.
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Sunday, July 07, 2002
Frank Emspak, Professor
Labor reporting with Frank Emspak, Professor in the department of Labor Education, University of Wisconsin Extension. For the last 10 years Frank has been teaching and working with unions and prior to 1991 he was the project director of the Massachusetts Center for Applied technology - one of the first manufacturing extension services in the country.
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Sunday, June 30, 2002
Michael Delli Carpini, author
The Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment with Michael Delli Carpini, author of What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters; and Bruce Williams, author of Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes and professor at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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Sunday, June 23, 2002
Local music
Local music with Larry Williams, owner of WWHP, Phil Strang, owner of Record Service, and Holly Rushakoff, music host on WEFT, and writer for CU Cityview.
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Sunday, June 16, 2002
John Stauber, founder of the Center for Media & Democracy
Public Relations, with John Stauber, investigative writer and founder of the Center for Media & Democracy.
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Sunday, June 09, 2002
Danielle Chynoweth and Sascha Meinrath
The Independent Media Center Movement, with Danielle Chynoweth and Sascha Meinrath, founding members of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
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Sunday, June 02, 2002
Yuezhi Zhao and Dan Schiller
The Chinese Media System, with Yuezhi Zhao, professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University; and Dan Schiller, professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences and the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois.
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Sunday, May 26, 2002
Kristina Borjesson and Gary Webb
Kristina Borjesson, independent writer, producer, and co-host of the Expert Witness Radio Show; and Gary Webb, investigative reporter.
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Sunday, May 19, 2002
Jim Hightower, commentator and populist
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