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 26, 2009
Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Our guest this week was Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. A former Republican political strategist, he is also former editor-
publisher of The American Political Report, and a frequent commentator and columnist on US politics.
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Amy Goodman, host of the radio show Democracy Now!
This week's show features Amy Goodman, host of the radio show Democracy Now! This was a pre-recorded show.
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation
Our guest this week is Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks, 2004) and, most recently, editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms, (NationBooks, 2005).
She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September 11, 2001.
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