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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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Monday, December 20, 2010

Chris Hedges and Bob McChesney Sunday at 1pm

Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Call and comment during this live program. http://www.truthdig.com

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Hedges' thesis about the liberal class is quite astute but fails to consider how he and others in the liberal establishment themselves amputate truth-tellers about 9/11. People should read Barrie Zwicker's Towers of Deception to get a better handle on Chomsky whose exaggerated reputation helps keep the antiwar movement checked. The establishment left censors itself by ridiculing valid questions-- including questions about Obama's biography, symbolized rightly or wrongly by a continuing focus on the validity of his Hawaiian birth certificate. Consider Lt. Col. Lakin who threw himself upon the gears of empire for reasons of conscience. Was he just a fool? His arrest was not of the sort that he could be arrested on a Thursday to be free to speak on a Sunday. Fool or not, one thing is certain: our media freedoms are in shambles, propaganda rules, and the establishment left exists in a bubble that only invites ridicule upon itself.

Posted by Robert B. Livingston on 12/19 at 03:28 PM

Chris is wrong about the net. The net won't replace books just as cars didn't replace shod feet.

Posted by Eloizabeth Ferrari on 12/20 at 10:13 PM

The podcast, as well as the download, etc., do not work because the file they point to is missing. Thank you for attending to this.