John Nichols joins us in our summer pledge drive

Over the past decade, John Nichols has co-authored with Bob It's the Media, Stupid!, Our Media, Not Theirs, Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy and, most recently, The Death and Life of American Journalism. McChesney and Nichols are the co-founders of Free Press, the nation's media-reform network, which organizes the National Conference for Media Reform.

This will be a pre-recorded show so sit back and relax while Bob and John talk shop and please, if you value Media Matters as a locally sourced avenue for national figures to discuss media and politics, please consider a gift to Media Matters and Illinois Public Media. To those who have already given this year, THANK YOU! We are over 89% of the way towards our bi-annual fundraising goal, and could not have done it without you! To those who need a little extra nudge, we are offering both John Nichols' most recent book, Uprising, and Glenn Greenwald's And Liberty and Justice for Some as another way to say thank you to our financial supporters.