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."
Subscribe to the Media Matters podcast
Media Matters programs & archives:
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Norman Stockwell
This week our guest is Norman Stockwell.
Audio archives:
Play now:
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
back to the main Media Matters page
Sunday, September 23, 2007
David Barsamian, author
This week our guest is David Barsamian, host of Alternative Radio and author most recently of Targeting Iran. In Targeting Iran, Barsamian presents interviews with three experts on Iran and U.S. foreign policy who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic regime; Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces; relations with Iraq and Afghanistan; and the consequences of U.S. policy.
Audio archives:
Play now:
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
back to the main Media Matters page
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Mark Crispin Miller, Professor
This week our guest is Mark Crispin Miller, Professor at NYU and author of Fooled Again. In Fooled Again, Miller takes an in-depth look at the stolen 2004 election featuring overviews of all the vote suppression, vote padding and other vote count manipulation that played such an important role in the presidential election across the country.
Audio archives:
Play now:
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
back to the main Media Matters page
Sunday, September 09, 2007
This week our guest is FCC Commissioner Michael Copps. This was a pre-recorded show.
Mr. Copps served from 1998 until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce. From 1993 to 1998, Mr. Copps served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Basic Industries, a component of the Trade Development Unit. Mr. Copps moved to Washington in 1970, joined the staff of Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) and served for over a dozen years as Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff. From 1985 to 1989, he served as Director of Government Affairs for a Fortune 500 Company. From 1989 to 1993, he was Senior Vice President for Legislative Affairs at a major national trade association.
Audio archives:
Play now:
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
back to the main Media Matters page
Sunday, September 02, 2007
This week our guests are Henry Giroux and John Wilson. To mark Labor Day weekend they will be discussing issues related to academic freedom and academic labor.
John Wilson is the founder of the Institute for College Freedom, and the author of "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies." Henry Giroux is the author most recently of "The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex."
Audio archives:
Play now:
RealAudio archive
Download: mp3 file
Show links:
back to the main Media Matters page
Comments: