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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, September 05, 2010

Thom Hartmann, the nation's leading Progressive talk show is Bob's guest on Sunday

Thom Hartmann is the nation's #1 progressive radio talk show host (also simulcast as TV in 40 million homes by Dish Network/Free Speech TV), and the New York Times bestselling, 4-times project Censored winning author of 21 books in print.
He is live daily from noon-3 PM ET in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Detroit, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Santa Fe, Grand Rapids, Asheville, Lansing, and on over one hundred other outlets nationwide including Chicago, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Madison, Denver, and on XM and Sirius Satellite radio, and simulcast as a TV show on the Free Speech TV Network (http://www.freespeech.org) carried on the national satellite TV system, Dish Network. Join the conversation with Hartmann and McChesney, Sunday 1pm. http://www.thomhartmann.com

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While I agree with Thom Hartmann on many issues - most notably the notion that Obama is a corporatist and a warmonger, I don't see how having Thom propagandize his views is in line with your mission statement "We want to help people understand the role of media in society." Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to have him comment on the media? Specifically, he mentioned in passing that his listeners were upset with him for giving a pass on Obama's foreign policy. I would have loved to hear some probing into that, and the media's role in shaping public opinion on the war. What about NBC getting exclusive access to the so-called "Iraq pullout", in return for giving patriotic softball coverage harkening back to 2003?

Posted by zack on 09/06 at 10:44 AM

I generally agree with Thom Hartmann but I have to take offense with his repeated use of "Maggie Thatcher" when speaking of Margaret Thatcher. Ronald Reagan isn't Ronnie, Bill Clinton isn't Billy and George Bush isn't Georgie. This is very disrespectful and sexist Thommy.