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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, January 01, 2012

Media Matters greets the new year with Katrina vanden Heuvel

This week, Bob is joined by Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina is the editor, publisher and co-owner of The Nation magazine and has authored several books about American politics. A weekly columnist for WashingtonPost.com, she is a frequent commentator in the media on American and international politics.

She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties Union's Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She is also the recipient of The American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee's 2003 "Voices of Peace" award. Katrina is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, and she also serves on the board of The Institute for Women's Policy Research, The Institute for Policy Studies, The World Policy Institute, The Correctional Association of New York and The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.

Her newest book, "The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in the Age of Obama," was released in October 2011.

This episode's maiden broadcast will be aired this Sunday, January 1, 2012, although it was previously recorded in December of 2011. As this is a pre-recorded episode, no calls with be taken from listeners this week.

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Katrina presented some interesting views on the state of progressive politics and the Obama administration. But it seems to me that her analysis failed to include what Juan Gonzalez and Joe Torres highlighted in your interviews only a month earlier- the exclusion or underinclusion of Latinos and African Americans from the media and other parts of the OWS movement. You even covered Russia. But atlas it is always left up to Black and Latinos to bring up this matter. By the way how many Latinos and African Americans write for The Nation? Opps sorry for bringing it up. I would hate to divide the working class. Howard Jordan

Posted by Howard Jordan on 01/05 at 02:51 PM

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