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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, November 04, 2007

Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote

This week our guest is Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote, a non-profit organization acting to transform American elections to achieve equal access to participation, a full spectrum of meaningful choices and majority rule with fair representation and a voice for all. He is co-author of Every Vote Equal about establishing a national popular vote for president and Whose Votes Count, about proportional voting for American elections.