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, June 28, 2009
Susan Linn, Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center
Our guest this week is Susan Linn. Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Linn is a co-founder of the
national coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. She is the author of The Case for Make Believe and Consuming Kids.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Our guest this week is Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of books including The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, and No Logo.
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
David Niewert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right
Our guest this week is David Niewert. He is a freelance journalist based in Seattle. He is the author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right (PoliPoint Press, May 2009).
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Sunday, June 07, 2009
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and former presidential candidate
Our guest this week is Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and former presidential candidate. Nader first came onto the national scene with his book "Unsafe at Any Speed" about GM and its Chevrolet Corvair. We will be talking with him about the GM bailout and other recent economic developments.
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