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Media Matters with Bob McChesney

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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 28, 2009

Steve Early Labor Organizer

Steve Early was a Boston-based international representative or organizer for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years. Prior to working for CWA, he served as a headquarters staffer for the United Mine Workers and staff attorney and newspaper editor for the Professional Drivers Council (merged in 1979 into Teamsters for a Democratic Union).
As a free-lance labor journalist, he has written for The Nation, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, and various other publications.
A collection of Early's "participatory labor journalism" was published in May, 2009, by Monthly Review Press. It's called Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home.

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I was disappointed with your program last week. The Early interview was preceded by another ho-hum call to create a new media with absolutely no strategy offered to make it happen. Then the Early interview itself: here the national and international economy is disintegrating and you guys are talking about strengthening the labor movement as if it were still 1966. I would have thought it time to talk about general strike, popular banks, Constitutional Conventions, that kind of thing. It's time to talk about what to replace the economic and political system with and for figuring out a strategy for making it happen.