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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, June 01, 2008

Jim Hightower, national radio commentator

This week our guest is Jim Hightower. National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author of the new book, Swim Against The Current: Even A Dead Fish Can Go With The Flow, Hightower has spent three decades "battling the Powers That Be on behalf of the Powers That Ought To Be - consumers, working families, environmentalists, small businesses, and just-plain-folks."

Twice elected Texas Agriculture Commissioner, Hightower broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, and on Radio for Peace International. He also does a weekly video blog that is carried on many popular websites.

In the Urbana-Champaign area, Hightower's daily commentary is broadcast on WEFT 90.1 FM.