WILL channel navigation

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."

Subscribe to the Media Matters podcast

Media Matters programs & archives:

Sunday, December 02, 2007

Robert Kuttner, editor-in-chief of The American Prospect

This week our guest is Robert Kuttner. Kuttner is the co-founder and current editor-in-chief of The American Prospect. He writes regularly for the magazine on political and economic issues. He is the author of the newly released book The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (Knopf, November 2007).

Kuttner is also the author of six previous books: Everything for Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997); The End of Laissez- Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic Illusion (1984); Revolt of the Haves (1980); and Family Re-union (2002), co- authored with his late wife, Sharland Trotter. His syndicated weekly editorial column originates in The Boston Globe and appears Mondays on the Prospect website.