Media Matters

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided

2009-11-22T21:48:02Z

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of NYT's bestseller Nickel and Dimed and Bob talk about her new book, Bright-Sided, How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America. Barbara has written 16 other books, including Bait and Switch. She contributes to Harper's and The Nation, and has been a columnist with New York Times and Time magazine.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091122.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Media Matters hosts Max Blumenthal

2009-11-15T22:50:12Z

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. Bob and Mr. Blumenthal discuss his book, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091115.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Mark Contreras, Senior Vice President/Newspapers, EW Scripps

2009-11-08T23:21:12Z

Mark Contreras joined The E. W. Scripps Company in January, 2005 as vice president newspaper operations. He was promoted to his current position of Senior Vice President/Newspapers in March, 2006. Mark oversees the day-to-day operations and strategic direction of the Scripps newspaper division, which includes daily and community newspapers in 13 markets, innovative Web-based information services and other related businesses. Mark is a member of the Executive Committee of the Newspaper Association of America and serves as its vice chairman. He is a board member of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts as well as Cincinnati Public Radio, a trustee of the Scripps Howard Foundation, and a member of the National Association of Multicultural Media Executives. He is former board chairman of the American Press Institute, as well as The Cabot Westside Clinic (Kansas City, MO), former trustee and executive committee member of the College Misericordia (Dallas, PA), former board member, Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association (Harrisburg, PA), and in 1996 was selected by Presstime magazine as one of the “20 under 40”.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091108.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Robert Greenwald and McChesney discuss Afghanistan

2009-11-01T21:26:21Z

Robert Greenwald is a producer, director and political activist. Greenwald is the founder and president of Brave New Films. Under Greenwald's direction, Brave New Films has produced a series of short political videos, including the Fox Attacks and Real McCain campaigns. Robert Greenwald's Brave New Foundation is currently producing Rethink Afghanistan, a groundbreaking documentary being released online in real-time; the film features experts from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the U.S. discussing the United States' flawed strategy in Afghanista

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091101.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Michael Albert

2009-10-26T04:13:38Z

Bob talks with Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Michael Albert, longtime activists, authors and bloggers for the Huffington Post and ZMagazine.

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MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091025.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Media Matters Pledge Drive

2009-10-18T21:44:55Z

Robert McChesney and John Nichols co-host Media Matters from 1PM to 3PM this Sunday. Guests on this pledge drive edition include Ben Scott, Norman Solomon and Noam Chomsky. Call and contribute to WILL-AM 580, show support for public radio in your community and for great programming like Media Matters with Bob McChesney. For more information on how you can pledge, click "Support" on the WILL homepage.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091018.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Michael Moore "Capitalism: A Love Story" and Sue Wilson "Broadcast Blues"

2009-10-11T21:40:23Z

Filmmaker Michael Moore sits down with Bob McChesney this week to discuss his new movie "Capitalism: A Love Story." This is a 20 minute interview pre-recorded with Bob and Moore, so no calls will be taken during that segment. Sue Wilson will then join us live to talk about her movie "Broadcast Blues" the movie "the media does not want you to see." http://www.broadcastblues.tv

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091011.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Josh Silver, Executive Director Free Press

2009-10-04T20:33:18Z

Josh Silver and McChesney discuss Net Neutrality - Mr. Silver of the Free Press oversees all programs, campaigns, fundraising and special projects. Josh previously served as campaign manager for the successful statewide ballot initiative for public funding of elections in Arizona and as the director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. He has served as the director of an international youth exchange program and as a development and management consultant. Josh publishes frequently on media, campaign finance and other public policy issues. He attended the University of Grenoble, France, and Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters091004.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Gore Vidal

2009-09-28T00:58:41Z

Gore Vidal is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and provocateur whose career has spanned six decades, beginning in the years immediately following World War II and continuing into the early years of the twenty-first century. In addition to a major sequence of seven novels about American history, and such satirical novels as MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DULUTH, he has written dozens of television plays, film scripts, and even three mystery novels written under a pseudonym. He has also written well over a hundred essays, gathered in several volumes published between 1962 and 2001. Taken as a whole, this seemingly varied work has an uncanny unity, exhibiting a tone of easy familiarity with the world of politics and letters, an urbane wit, and a supreme self-confidence on the part of the writer. Listen to Bob and Mr. Vidal discuss Obama, the media and the state of the Union on Media Matters. If you missed radio interview, listen to our audio archive linked here.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090927.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Eric Boehlert on Media Matters Sunday

2009-09-20T19:37:58Z

Eric Boehlert is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press, 2006) and Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press (Free Press, 2009). He worked for five years as a senior writer for Salon.com, where he wrote extensively about media and politics. Prior to that, he worked as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone. Boehlert has a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern studies from the University of Massachusetts and is a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090920.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Bob McChesney interviews Chris Mooney, blogger for Discover Magazine and author.

2009-09-13T22:16:10Z

Chris Mooney is a visiting associate in the Center for Collaborative History at Princeton University and the author of The Republican War on Science, Storm World and, with Sheril Kirshenbaum, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future. Chris's blog can be found at blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090913.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Wendell Potter, Healthcare Reform

2009-09-07T00:21:00Z

Wendell Potter has served since May 2009 as CMD's Senior Fellow on Health Care. After a 20-year career as a corporate public relations executive, last year he left his job as head of communications for one of the nation's largest health insurers (Cigna) to try his hand at helping socially responsible organizations -- including those advocating for meaningful health care reform -- achieve their goals. He speaks out on both the need for a fundamental overhaul of the American health care system and on the dangers to American democracy and society of the decline of the media as watchdog, which has contributed to the growing and increasingly unchecked influence of corporate PR. Listen and comment, 1:00PM CST on WILL AM 580.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090906.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Christopher Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion

2009-08-30T21:08:27Z

Pulitzer Prize winner, Christopher Hedges, whose weekly Truthdig column is published every Monday, is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Hedges, who has reported from more than 50 countries, worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times. His book, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle is his latest publication.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090830.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Glenn Greenwald, author of Great American Hypocrites

2009-08-23T18:43:13Z

This week on Media Matters Bob McChesney talks with Glenn Greenwald. Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: "How Would a Patriot Act?" (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power, and "A Tragic Legacy" (June, 2007), which examines the Bush legacy. His most recent book, "Great American Hypocrites", examines the manipulative electoral tactics used by the GOP and propagated by the establishment press.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090823.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)

Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig

2009-08-16T21:50:23Z

This week on Media Matters, Bob McChesney welcomes Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's top-50 visionaries for his efforts to keep interpretations of copyright law from limiting the potential benefits of the internet on society. Mr. Lessig is active in anti-corruption work and is a constitutional lawyer and may offer a timely perspective on the Supreme Court. Join the conversation Sunday at one on Media Matters.

MP3 archive of this interview: http://will.illinois.edu/media/mediamatters090816.mp3 (duration: 61 minutes)