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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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Sunday, July 18, 2010

McChesney and Charlie Pierce a NPR regular discuss his new book "Idiot America"

Call and comment. McChesney and Charlie Pierce familiar to NPR listeners from shows "Only a Game" and "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" discuss Pierce's new book called "Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free." Call 333-9455 to join the conversation Sunday.

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That false equivalency argument from people with right-wing-nut sympathies is extremely annoyingly common! For people who give credibility to these deniers of Climate Change/Global Warming, here is a very good interview with the author of Merchants of Doubt: http://www.pointofinquiry.org/naomi_oreskes_merchants_of_doubt/ These deniers want to be called "skeptics". Don't let them pervert that word.

Posted by Doug Greer on 07/19 at 10:27 AM

Great show! Might I suggest that you interview Joe Bageant at some point.

Posted by CityKid on 07/20 at 01:58 AM

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