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, April 27, 2008
Patrick Cockburn, journalist
This week our guest is journalist Patrick Cockburn. He has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979, previously for the Financial Times and currently for The Independent. Cockburn has written four books on Iraq. Two, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession, were written with his brother Andrew Cockburn prior to the war in Iraq. Two more were written by Patrick alone after the U.S. invasion, following his award- winning reporting from Iraq.
His most recent book is Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival,and the Struggle for Iraq.
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Norman Solomon, author
This week our guest is Norman Solomon, author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State (October 2007).
A familiar voice for Media Matters listeners, Solomon is a nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He is founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts, and has been writing the weekly Media Beat column since 1992.
Solomon's book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death was published in 2005. The Los Angeles Times called the book "brutally persuasive" and "a must-read for those who would like greater context with their bitter morning coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are still to come." A documentary based on the book was released in 2007.
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Joeseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate
This week our guest is Professor Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel medal winning economist, and former vice-President and chief economist of the World Bank. He is the author, most recently, of The Three-Trillion Dollar War.
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, & Naomi Wolf
This week is our Spring Pledge Drive show, with guest John Nichols and contact from various friends of the show. Your support helps keep us on the air, and allows us to hear from guests such as Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower and Naomi Wolf. We strive to bring critical voices to the airwaves, voices that don't necessarily get a hearing elsewhere, and to give the space for guests to go into depth, and for listeners to engage directly with our guests. Please consider pledging your support, so that our scheduled upcoming guests can be joined on the air by many more in the years to come: http://willpledge.org
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