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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Sunday, January 25, 2009
James Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
Our guest this week is James Galbraith. A Professor of government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Galbraith's most recent book is The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. He is the author of Balancing Acts: Technology, Finance and the American Future (1989) and Created Unequal: The Crisis in American Pay (1998). Galbraith is a Senior Scholar of the Levy Economics Institute and Chair of the Board of Economists for Peace and Security, a global professional network. He writes a column for Mother Jones, and occasional commentary in many other publications, including The Texas Observer, The American Prospect, and The Nation.
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