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 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.