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 26, 2008
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
This week's guest is Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, among many works. Zinn is an acclaimed historian and political scientist, and has been active in Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States for many years.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, and others join us for a 2-hour Pledge Drive Special from noon to 2 pm Central
This week's show is a Pledge Drive special, and will run from 12-2pm Central Time (1-3pm EDT / 10am-midday PDT). We will be joined by regular guest John Nichols, as well as special guests such as Prof. Noam Chomsky.
Listeners can support our home station, WILL, by going to this website: http://willpledge.org. Donors will have an opportunity to note their support for Media Matters as part of the online process. You can also call to pledge at (217) 244-9455.
NEWS FROM OUR GUESTS
Naomi Klein, former Media Matters guest and author of The Shock Doctrine, will be speaking October 29 at 7:30pm at the Smith Memorial Hall, 800 S Matthews Ave, Urbana.
Former Media Matters guest Paul Krugman was the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. You can listen to Prof. Krugman on Media Matters last December: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/mediamatters071216.mp3
or in 2004: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/mediamatters041212.mp3
This brings to two the number of Nobel laureates who have been guests on Media Matters in the past year - Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, a previous winner in economics, was a guest in April of this year.
Meanwhile, regular Media Matters guest Amy Goodman is one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prize, and awarded to those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today."
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Sunday, October 12, 2008
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine
Our guest on 12th was Robert Kuttner. Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to write columns in the Boston Globe. The Squandering of America, exploring the political roots of America's narrowing prosperity and the systemic financial risks facing the U.S. economy, is his seventh book. The book was recently honored with the Sidney Hillman Journalism Award. He has begun work on a new book on trade, equality, efficiency, and the challenge of regulating global capitalism.
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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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