Media Matters
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Journalist John Nichols
Long time friend and colleague of Bob, John Nichols joins Bob this Sunday.His most recent book, Uprising, captures the protest movement that captivated the nation and paved the path for Occupy Wall Street. More than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. Uprising provides an anatomy of the event and its...
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American journalist, media critic, Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon wrote the nationally syndicated "Media Beat" weekly column from 1992 to 2009. His latest book, "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State," documents five decades of rising American militarism and the media's all-too-frequent failure to challenge it. Solomon's unique weave of personal narrative and historical inquiry, Daniel Ellsberg notes in the foreword, "helps us understand where we are now and how we got here." Solomon's book "War Made Easy: How...
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United Republic founder, Josh Silver
Josh Silver, CEO of United Republic, is a veteran election and media reform executive. He was the campaign manager for the successful 1998 Arizona Clean Elections (public funding) ballot initiative campaign and is the cofounder along with Bob McChesney and John Nichols, and former CEO of Free Press, the nation's leading media and technology reform advocacy organization. He was the director of development for the cultural arm of the Smithsonian Institution.Josh has published widely on media,...
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Journalist Chris Hedges on "Days of Destruction, Days of...
Prolific writer and journalist Chris Hedges joins us this Sunday to discuss his newest book, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." In collaboration with graphic artist, Joe Stacco, Hedges investigates the impact of unfettered capitalism on American life. Part graphic novel, part journalistic narrative, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," offers a unique glimpse into the American experience living in the capitalist state.Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, is a senior...
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Journalist David Sirota
David Sirota is a journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist, award-winning radio host and bestselling author living in Denver, Colorado. As a regular contributor to Salon.com, Sirota covers the intersection of politics, media and popular culture. In reviews of his writing, the New York Times called Sirota a "populist rabble-rouser" with a "take-no-prisoners mind-set." In 2010, The Nation magazine named Sirota one of the 30 Media Heroes in America.Sirota's first two books...
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Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
Amy Goodman is an award-winning investigative journalist and syndicated columnist, author and host of the daily, independent global news hour, Democracy Now!, which airs on more than 1,070 public television and radio stations worldwide. A driving force in the movement to rebuild the public media landscape, Democracy Now! presents people and perspectives rarely heard in the corporate media.Goodman's fifth book, The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope,...
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Chris Hayes, Author of Twilight of the Elites
If social change is a two-step process--first, those seeking change must convince the public that the current system should not be trusted; then, new social and legal structures must be put in place--we are now caught in a strange limbo between stage one and two. Chris Hayes' new book, Twilight of the Elites challenges us to imagine a different social order, to construct coalitions, institutions, and constituencies that militate not only against the status quo, but for equality. "This is the...
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Sportswriter Dave Zirin on the Olympics
Named one of UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is their first sports writer in 150 years of existence. Winner of Sport in Society and Northeastern University School of Journalism's 2011 'Excellence in Sports Journalism' Award, Zirin is also the host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert...
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Award Winning Journalist Glenn Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald is a former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and is the author of three New York Times Bestselling books: two on the Bush administration's executive power and foreign policy abuses, and his latest book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, an indictment of America's two-tiered system of justice. Greenwald was named by The Atlantic as one of the 25 most influential political commentators in the nation. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for...
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Tom Engelhardt on The United States of Fear
"Tom Engelhardt, who founded and runs the popular website TomDispatch, is a politician's worst nightmare. In his new book, The United States of Fear, Engelhardt criticizes the right and the left in equal measure, challenging both former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama for the wars they have engaged in and the costs associated with those wars. Engelhardt's popular columns... and his own site was borne out of the post-9/11 haze. That's according to Engelhardt himself, who...
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Noam Chomsky joins Bob this Sunday
Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class...
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Richard Maxwell & Toby Miller on Greening the Media
"Someone once said that people should never go into the kitchen of a restaurant where they enjoy eating. Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell take us into the electronic media's kitchen, and the food will never taste the same again. In a brilliant, even stunning, expose of the environmental practices and impact of media corporations, Greening the Media is one of the most important media books in years. Extremely readable and entertaining, this highly original and well-researched book should be...
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Danielle Chynoweth on the 2012 Grassroots Radio...
Local activist and organizer, Danielle Chynoweth joins Bob this Sunday to discuss the Grassroots Radio Conference, to be held this year in Champaign-Urbana, in addition to her work as both a politician and a political activist. Danielle facilitates strategic planning for the Prometheus Radio Project, a not-for-profit association dedicated to the democratization of the airwaves through the proliferation of non-commercial, community based, micropower radio stations. Co-founder of the...
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Long time friend and colleague, John Nichols joins us in...
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...
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Michael Perelman and Bob talk economics
Michael Perelman teaches economics at California State University, Chico. He has published 19 books, including, The Confiscation of American Prosperity, Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. Prof. Perelman's most recent book, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers, challenges mainstream economic thought to acknowledge how the capitalist context of labor, assumed as...
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New York Times op-ed columnist, Paul Krugman, on his new...
The Great Recession is more than four years old--and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in his new book, End This Depression Now!, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge--all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all--remain in a state of intense pain."How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic...
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James Galbraith discusses inequality and economic...
As Wall Street rose to dominate the U.S. economy, income and pay inequalities in America came to dance to the tune of the credit cycle. As the reach of financial markets extended across the globe, interest rates, debt, and debt crises became the dominant forces driving the rise of economic inequality almost everywhere. Author James Galbraith, in his new book, Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis, challenges the standard economic notions on...
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Dan Schiller discusses Communication history and the...
University of Illinois Professor Dan Schiller, joins Bob this Sunday to discuss the history of communication and the Internet. UI Professor of Library & Information Science, Dan's most recent project is The Hidden History of Telecommunications, described as "an archivally grounded research project on telecom system development between the 1870s and the 1950s."This is a prerecorded show. We will return to live programming Sunday, June 3, 2012.
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Professor Sundiata Cha-Jua discusses African-American...
Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, from which he earned a Ph.D. in 1993, and in African American Studies. He previously taught in the History department and directed the Black Studies Program at the University of Missouri at Columbia, and taught history at Pennsylvania State University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Dr. Cha-Jua received Advanced Certificates in Black Studies from...
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"Leaks are not the problem; they are the symptom."...
Heather Brooke is an American journalist and freedom of information campaigner. She's written three books including Your Right to Know, a vital guide to requesting information and documents under the Freedom of Information Act. Brooke, in assisting The Guardian, helped to edit and publish excerpts of the Wikileaks' US diplomacy cable leaks in 2010. Her most recent book, The Revolution Will Be Digitised, Brooke examines the struggle of governments and individuals alike to balance freedom and...
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FAIR's Janine Jackson joins Bob this Sunday
Janine Jackson is program director of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) and producer/co-host of FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin. She contributes frequently to FAIR's magazine, Extra! and co-edited The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in the '90s (Westview Press).She has appeared on ABC's Nightline and CNN Headline News, among other outlets, and has testified to the Senate Communications Subcommittee on budget reauthorization for the Corporation for Public...
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Linda McQuaig discusses Billionaire's Ball.
Linda McQuaig is a Canadian journalist, columnist and non-fiction author. She is author of nine books on politics and economics. Her most recent book, Billionaires' Ball, brings perspective to the notion of what it means to be a billionaire and how social norms and public policy have shifted to embrace an economic reality that was, at one time, considered monetarily impossible.
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What do Condoleezza Rice, Rachel Maddow, and Gloria...
When Jennifer Siebel Newsom's film Miss Representation premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, audiences were riveted, and Oprah Winfrey acquired its broadcast rights. Writer/Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom interwove stories from teenage girls with provocative interviews from the likes of Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Lisa Ling, Geena Davis, Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Dr. Jackson Katz, Dr. Jean Kilbourne, and Gloria Steinem to give us an inside look at...
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Media Matters Celebrates Ten Years
Long time friend and colleague of Bob, John Nichols joins us in commemorating ten years of being on the air.His most recent book, Uprising, captures the protest movement that captivated the nation and paved the path for Occupy Wall Street. More than 100,000 public employees, teachers, students, and their allies descended on the capital in Madison, Wisconsin after Governor Scott Walker announced his plan to eliminate the right of public sector employees to unionize. Uprising provides an...
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Diane Ravitch discusses the turmoils of the America...
In The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, Diane Ravitch--former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum--examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring schools, including privatization, standardized...
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Rebecca MacKinnon discusses Consent of the Networked.
Drawing upon two decades of experience as an international journalist, co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, Chinese Internet censorship expert, and Internet freedom activist, Rebecca MacKinnon's new book, Consent of the Networked, offers a framework for concerned citizens to understand the complex and often hidden power dynamics amongst governments, corporations, and citizens in cyberspace. She warns that a convergence of unchecked government actions and unaccountable...
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Joseph Turow, Prof. of Communication, Univ. of...
Professor Turow is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Assn and was presented with a Distinguished Scholar Award by the National Communication Assn. A 2005 New York Times Magazine article referred to Professor Turow as "probably the reigning academic expert on media fragmentation." Professor Turow's continuing national surveys of the American public on issues relating to marketing, new media, and society have received a great deal of attention in the popular press as well as...
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ACLU President Susan Herman joins Bob this Sunday
Susan Herman was elected President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in October 2008, after having served on the ACLU National Board of Directors for twenty years, as a member of the Executive Committee for sixteen years, and as General Counsel for ten years.Herman holds a chair as Centennial Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where she currently teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure, and seminars on Law and Literature, and Terrorism and Civil...
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Journalist Michael Hastings discusses his new book on...
General Stanley McChrystal, the innovative, forward-thinking commanding general of international and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, was living large. He was better known to some as Big Stan, M4, Stan, and his loyal staff liked to call him a "rock star." During a spring 2010 trip across Europe to garner additional allied help for the war effort, McChrystal was accompanied by journalist Michael Hastings of Rolling Stone. For days, Hastings looked on as McChrystal and his staff let off steam,...
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Gar Alperovitz dicusses America Beyond Capitalism.
As discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in the wake of the "great recession", America Beyond Capitalism is a book whose time has come. Gar Alperovitz's expert diagnosis of the long-term structural crisis of the American economic and political system is accompanied by detailed, practical answers to the problems we face as a society. Unlike many books that reserve a few pages of a concluding chapter to offer generalized, tentative solutions, Alperovitz marshals years of...
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Bruce Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini discuss the...
The new media environment has challenged the role of professional journalists as the primary source of politically relevant information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural and technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens, political elites and the media has been contested. Out of these past moments, distinct 'media regimes' eventually emerged,...
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Author Richard Arum discuss higher education with Bob...
In spite of soaring tuition costs, more and more students go to college every year. A bachelor's degree is now required for entry into a growing number of professions. And some parents begin planning for the expense of sending their kids to college when they're born. Almost everyone strives to go, but almost no one asks the fundamental question posed by Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on Higher Education: are undergraduates really learning anything once they get there?For a large...
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Craig Aaron of Free Press joins Bob this Sunday
Craig Aaron took leadership of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund in April 2011. Craig joined Free Press in 2004 and previously served as managing director, senior program director and communications director. He works in the Washington office and speaks across the country on media, Internet and journalism issues. Craig is a frequent guest on talk radio and is quoted often in the national press. His commentaries also appear regularly in the Guardian and the Huffington Post. Before...
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Project Censored's Mickey Huff & Peter Phillips talk...
Every year since 1976, Project Censored--a university-wide project at Sonoma State University founded by Carl Jensen, directed for many years by Peter Phillips, and now under the leadership of Mickey Huff--has produced a Top-25 list of underreported news stories and a book, Censored, dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly news, but that are missing because of media bias and self-censorship.Seven Stories Press has been publishing this yearbook since 1994,...
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Josh Silver to discuss his most recent endeavor, United...
Josh Silver is the co-founder and current CEO of United Republic, an organization fighting the corrupting influence of well-financed special interests over American politics and government. He is also the former CEO and president of Free Press, the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization co-founded with Bob McChesney and John Nichols in 2002 to engage the American public in media policy. He was previously campaign manager for the successful "Clean Elections in Arizona" ballot initiative;...
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Mari Jo & Paul Buhle weigh in on the largest pro-labor...
In the spring of 2011, Wisconsinites took to the streets in what became the largest and liveliest labor demonstrations in modern American history. Protesters in the Middle East sent greetings-and pizzas-to the thousands occupying the Capitol building in Madison, and 150,000 demonstrators converged on the city.In a year that has seen a revival of protest in America, here is a riveting account of the first great wave of grassroots resistance to the corporate restructuring of the Great...
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Tom Frank Discusses Pity the Billionaire
Thomas Frank is an American author, journalist and columnist for Harper's Magazine. He is a former columnist for the Wall Street Journal, authoring "The Tilting Yard" from 2008 to 2010. Frank is a historian of culture and ideas and analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism and economics. With his writing, he explores the rhetoric and impact of the 'Culture Wars' in American political life, and the relationship between...
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Media Matters greets the new year with Katrina vanden...
This week, Bob is joined by Katrina vanden Heuvel. Katrina is the editor, publisher and co-owner of The Nation magazine and has authored several books about American politics. A weekly columnist for WashingtonPost.com, she is a frequent commentator in the media on American and international politics. She has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including The Liberty Hill Foundation, The Correctional Association and The Association for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she...
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Noam Chomsky Definitely Joining Media Matters this Sunday
Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class...
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Noam Chomsky joins McChesney Sunday at 1pm
Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class...
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Morris Berman joins McChesney Sunday at 1pm
Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor's Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, and was the...
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News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the...
Bob's guests are Juan Gonzalez and Joseph Torres, authors of News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, a sweeping account of the class and racial conflicts in American news media, from the first colonial newspaper to the internet age. It chronicles key government decisions that created our nation's system of news, major political battles over the role of the press, and the rise of media conglomerates and epoch-defining technologies. The book reveals how racial...
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Lawrence Lessig joins McChesney on Media Matters with...
Join Bob and Professor Lawrence Lessig on Sunday at 1pm for a live show. Call and comment.Lawrence Lessig is the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.Prior to returning to Harvard, Lessig was a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (where he was founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society), Harvard Law School (1997-2000), and the University of Chicago Law School. Lessig clerked for Judge...
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Glenn Greenwald, former Constitutional and Civil Rights...
Glenn Greenwald is a former Constitutional and civil rights litigator and is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books on the Bush administration's executive power and foreign policy abuses. His just-released book, With Liberty and Justice for Some, is an indictment of America's two-tiered system of justice, which vests political and financial elites with immunity even for egregious crimes while subjecting ordinary Americans to the world's largest and most merciless penal state....
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Leo W. Gerard, Allied Industrial and Service Workers...
The son of a union miner and activist, Gerard went to work at a nickel smelter in his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario, at age 18. As a young man, he studied economics and political science at Laurentian University, where he later received an honorary doctorate of laws degree. Gerard was awarded a second honorary doctorate of laws degree, this one from the University of Guelph in Canada, in recognition of his contributions to social justice.Gerard was appointed International President on Feb....
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Van Jones joins McChesney on Media Matters Sunday,...
Van Jones has emerged as a leading champion of smart solutions for America's middle class. As an advisor to the Obama White House, he helped run the inter-agency process that oversaw $80 billion in green recovery spending. A Yale Law School graduate, he has a 20-year track record as a successful, innovative and award-winning social entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of three successful nonprofit organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green For All.He is a...
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Special Two Hour Pledge Drive Sunday
McChesney and Nichols once again team up for a Pledge Drive show on Sunday at 1pm on WILLAM580. McChesney and Nichols are committed to NPR and recognize it's importance in providing accurate coverage of news and events around the world. Special guests include a participant calling from the Occupy Wall Street protest. Join Media Matters with Bob McChesney and pledge your support for this show and all your other favorite NPR programs by calling (800)222-9455.
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Laura Flanders and Greg Mitchell talk about Occupy Wall...
Laura Flanders is the host of GritTV and Greg Mitchell writes for The Nation Magazine. Join Bob and his two distinguished guests in their discussion about Occupy Wall Street this Sunday at 1pm on WILL.
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Susan Saladoff - Filmmaker - "Hot Coffee"
Susan Saladoff (Producer, Director) spent twenty-five years practicing law in the civil justice system, representing injured victims of individual and corporate negligence. She stopped practicing law in 2009 to make the documentary, HOT COFFEE, her first feature-length film. She began her career as a public interest lawyer with the law firm of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, now known as Public Justice, an organization that, for the last 25 years, has been at the forefront of keeping...
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Mark Weisbrot from the Center for Economic Policy and...
Mark Weisbrot is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan. He has written numerous research papers on economic policy, especially on Latin America and international economic policy. He is also co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000).He writes a weekly column for The Guardian Unlimited (U.K.), and a regular column on economic...
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Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy with...
Lisa Graves is the Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy, the publisher of PR Watch, SourceWatch, and BanksterUSA. She previously served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government, as a leading strategist on civil liberties advocacy, and as an adjunct law professor at one of the top law schools in the country. Her former leadership posts include: Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy/Policy Development at the U.S....
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Live show with Salim Muwakkil Sunday September 18th
Salim Muwakkil is a senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983. He is the host of "The Salim Muwakkil" show on WVON, Chicago's historic black radio station, and he wrote the text for the book HAROLD: Photographs from the Harold Washington Years.As an editor for In These Times for more than 25 years, Salim Muwakkil has forged a reputation as one of the country's most insightful writers on issues of African-American culture and politics.Muwakkil started his journalism...
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Media Matters with Bob McChesney returns on September...
Because of special programming honoring the September 11, 2001 tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks, Media Matters will not air that day. Tune in September 18th with a live show featuring Salim Muwakkil.
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Robert Reich
Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and his most recent book, Aftershock. His "Marketplace" commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes. This is a recorded program, so sit back and enjoy this Labor Day...
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John K. Wilson talks with McChesney Sunday at 1pm
Author of the new book on Rush Limbaugh, "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh's Assault on Reason," (limbaughbook.com). Also the author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest" and "President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union (http://www.obamapolitics.com), along with "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies" (http://www.collegefreedom.org). Call and comment!http://www.limbaughbook.com
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Eli Pariser from MoveOn.org and the author of The Filter...
Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and as of May 2011 the author of The Filter Bubble. Eli has appeared as a commentator on "Good Morning America," "World News Tonight," the Colbert Report, and all of the major cable news channels except Fox News. His Op-Eds have appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, and other periodicals. Call and speak with Pariser and McChesney during...
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Winner-Take-All Politics: Washington Made the Rich...
Join McChesney as he talks with Jacob Hacker, PhD, the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He is the author of The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream, The Divided Welfare State, and, with Paul Pierson, Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Call 800 222 9455 to join the...
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John Bellamy Foster of the Monthly Review
John Bellamy Foster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon in Eugene, USA, where he teaches environmental sociology, social theory, Marxism and political economy. Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He became a director of the Monthly Review Foundation Board and a member of the Monthly Review editorial committee in 1989. He became a co-editor in 2000, and president of the Monthly Review Foundation in 2002. Foster was active in the anti-war and environmental movements from a...
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Amy Goodman, Host of Democracy Now! Joins McChesney on...
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 900 television and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely known as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize' for "developing an innovative model of truly independent grassroots political journalism...
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Dave Zirin on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Relax and enjoy Dave Zirin and McChesney talk about the politics of sports during this newly recorded program. Named of the UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World", Dave Zirin writes about the politics of sports for the Nation Magazine. He is their first sports writer in 150 years of existence. Zirin is also the host of Sirius XM Radio's popular weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio. He has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte. Dave Zirin...
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Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow."
A longtime civil rights advocate and litigator, Michelle Alexander won a 2005 Soros Justice Fellowship and now holds a joint appointment at the Moritz College of Law and the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at Ohio State University. Alexander served for several years as the director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, which spearheaded the national campaign against racial profiling. At the beginning of her career she served as a law clerk on...
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"The Filter Bubble" author Eli Pariser on Media Matters...
Call and Comment! Eli Pariser is an online organizer and disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and as of May 2011 the author of The Filter Bubble. Shortly after the September 11th terror attacks, Eli created a website calling for a multilateral approach to ?ghting terrorism. In the following weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on, and Eli rather unexpectedly became an online organizer. The...
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Jeremy Holden, Media Matters for America
Jeremy Holden is a Deputy Research Director at Media Matters for America. He previously covered state government for The Daily Reporter in Columbus, Ohio, before moving to Washington, D.C., to study the effects of media frames on public policy and opinion. He earned a Master of Arts degree from the George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs, with an emphasis on researching the role of mass media in global governance. His master's thesis measured the role of media framing...
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Nicholas Carr, Author of The Shallows
Nicholas Carr writes about technology, culture, and economics. His most recent book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, is a 2011 Pulitzer Prize nominee and a New York Times bestseller. Nick is also the author of two other influential books, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google (2008) and Does IT Matter? (2004). His books have been translated into more than 20 languages. This is a repeat program, so sit back and enjoy.
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Media Matters Fundraiser 1-3pm Sunday
Join McChesney, Nichols and Bill Moyers on Sunday's Media Matters with Bob McChesney for a special two hour pledge drive show to benefit Illinois Public Media. John Nichol's new book "The S Word: An American Tradition...Socialism" or a book Robert McChesney edited "Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can be Done to Fix It" at the $60 level, or both books at the $100 level. Call (217)244-9455 to pledge your support or Push to Pledge on...
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Media Matters Fundraiser 1-3pm Sunday
Join McChesney, Nichols and Bill Moyers on Sunday's Media Matters with Bob McChesney for a special two hour pledge drive show to benefit Illinois Public Media. John Nichol's new book "The S Word: An American Tradition...Socialism" or a book Robert McChesney edited "Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can be Done to Fix It" at the $60 level, or both books at the $100 level. Call (217)244-9455 to pledge your support or Push to Pledge on...
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Ralph Nader on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Join Bob and his guest Ralph Nader Sunday at 1pm central on Illinois Public Media's WILLAM580. Nader's latest book is "Only the Super-Rich can Save Us." Ralph Nader is one of America's most effective social critics. Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, his documented criticism of government and industry has had widespread effect on public...
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Editor of The Progressive, Matthew Rothschild
Matthew Rothschild is the editor of The Progressive magazine, which is one of the leading voices for peace and social justice in this country. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O'Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is the host of "Progressive Radio," a syndicated half-hour weekly interview program. And he does a two-minute daily radio commentary,...
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Katrina vanden Heuvel on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Katrina vanden Heuvel has been The Nation's editor since 1995 and its publisher since 2005. She is the co-editor of Taking Back America--And Taking Down the Radical Right (Nation Books, 2004) and editor of The Dictionary of Republicanisms (NationBooks, 2005) She is also co-editor (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990, and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and...
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Dean Baker and Bob discuss Economics
Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He is frequently cited in economics reporting in major media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, and National Public Radio. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian Unlimited (UK), the Huffington Post, TruthOut, and his blog, Beat the Press, features commentary on economic reporting. His analyses have appeared in many major publications, including the Atlantic Monthly,...
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McChesney talks with Frances Fox Piven
Distinguished Professor Frances Fox Piven received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Before coming to the Graduate Center, she taught at Boston University, Columbia University, New York University Law School, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Bologna. She is past Vice-President of the American Political Science Association, has served as program co-chair of the annual political science meetings, and is a past president of...
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Illinois Public Media and Media Matters with Bob...
In 2010, Sirota's radio show on Denver's Clear Channel affiliate, KKZN-AM760, was named Readers' Choice for best radio program by Westword and Editors' Choice for best program by 5280 magazine. That same year, The Nation magazine named Sirota one of the 30 Media Heroes in America. Sirota's first two books (Hostile Takeover and The Uprising) were both New York Times bestsellers. His third book, Back to Our Future, was released in March of 2011 to strong reviews (see here). As a magazine...
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Sunday November 28, 2010
McChesney and Nichols discuss "The Money and Media Election Complex"
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Sunday November 21, 2010
Yochai Benkler
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Sunday November 07, 2010
Paul Jay of The Real News
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Sunday October 24, 2010
Pledge your support to WILL AM 580
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Sunday October 17, 2010
Robert W. McChesney on American Journalism
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Sunday October 10, 2010
Professor Lewis Hyde, author of the book Common as Air
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Sunday October 03, 2010
Bob talks with Belden Fields and Carol Ammons about the Independent Media Center
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Sunday September 12, 2010
Bob welcomes Glenn Greenwald to Media Matters
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Sunday September 05, 2010
Thom Hartmann, the nation's leading Progressive talk show is Bob's guest on Sunday
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Sunday August 29, 2010
Dave Zirin and Bob talk about the politics of sports.
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Sunday August 22, 2010
Nicholas Carr author of The Shallows on Sunday. Calls are welcome!
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Sunday August 15, 2010
Norman Solomon on Media Matters with Bob McChesney Sunday, August 15th
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Sunday August 08, 2010
Detecting Bull: How to Identify Bias and Junk Journalism in Print,Broadcast and on the Wild Web - John McManus on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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Sunday August 01, 2010
Replay of interview with Mark Weisbrot
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Sunday July 25, 2010
"Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open: A Free Press for a New Century" - Lee Bollinger, President of Columbia University
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Sunday July 18, 2010
McChesney and Charlie Pierce a NPR regular discuss his new book "Idiot America"
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Sunday July 11, 2010
Bob McChesney and Juliet Schor discuss "Plentitude: The New Economics of True Wealth."
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Sunday July 04, 2010
A special encore recording featuring the late Howard Zinn
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Sunday June 13, 2010
Stephen Kinzer and Bob discuss RESET: Iran, Turkey and America's Future
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Sunday June 27, 2010
Pledge Drive Show with John Nichols and Terry Gross
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Sunday June 20, 2010
CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot and Bob discuss "South of the Border"
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Sunday June 06, 2010
Alex Gibney - Filmmaker talks with Bob about "Casino Jack"
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Sunday May 30, 2010
William Ayers, author of "To Teach" on Sunday, May 30th
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Sunday May 23, 2010
Flimmaker Alex Gibney and Bob discuss "Casino Jack and the United States of Money."
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Sunday May 16, 2010
Laura Flanders of GRITtv on Sunday, May 16th
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Sunday May 09, 2010
Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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Sunday May 02, 2010
Author Susan Douglas Sunday, May 2nd
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Sunday April 25, 2010
Noam Chomsky Sunday, April 25th
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Sunday April 18, 2010
Jeremy Scahill on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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Sunday April 11, 2010
Guests include Norman Solomon on Pledge Drive Show
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Sunday April 04, 2010
Joseph Stiglitz and Bob McChesney on the American Economy
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Sunday March 28, 2010
"You Are Not a Gadget" author Jaron Lanier
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Sunday March 21, 2010
Dean Baker joins McChesney in a discussion about the American Economy
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Sunday March 14, 2010
Chalmers Johnson on Media Matters with Bob McChesney
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Sunday March 07, 2010
Patricia Aufderheide, Director of the Center for Social Media
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Sunday February 28, 2010
Amy Goodman joins Bob on Media Matters
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Sunday February 21, 2010
Live at Siebel Center!
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Sunday February 14, 2010
Barry C. Lynn is Bob's guest on Sunday
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Sunday February 07, 2010
Media Matters hosts Sut Jhally
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Sunday January 31, 2010
Media Matters Hosts Janine Jackson
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Sunday January 24, 2010
Bob and Richard Benjamin discuss his book "Searching for Whitopia."
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Sunday January 17, 2010
McChesney and Robin Kelley discuss Thelonious Monk
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Sunday November 29, 2009
Steve Early, Labor Educator
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Sunday November 22, 2009
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided
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Sunday November 15, 2009
Media Matters hosts Max Blumenthal
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Sunday November 01, 2009
Robert Greenwald and McChesney discuss Afghanistan
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Sunday October 25, 2009
Bill Fletcher, Jr. and Michael Albert
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Sunday October 18, 2009
Media Matters Pledge Drive
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Sunday October 11, 2009
Michael Moore "Capitalism: A Love Story" and Sue Wilson "Broadcast Blues"
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Sunday October 04, 2009
Josh Silver, Executive Director Free Press
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Sunday September 27, 2009
Anne Elizabeth Moore
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Sunday September 20, 2009
Eric Boehlert on Media Matters Sunday
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Sunday September 13, 2009
Bob McChesney interviews Chris Mooney, blogger for Discover Magazine and author.
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Sunday September 06, 2009
Wendell Potter, Healthcare Reform
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Sunday August 30, 2009
Christopher Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion
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Sunday August 23, 2009
Glenn Greenwald, author of Great American Hypocrites
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Sunday August 16, 2009
Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig
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Sunday August 09, 2009
Christian Parenti, author of The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq
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Sunday August 02, 2009
Janine Jackson, program director of FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting).
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Sunday July 26, 2009
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, Congresswoman for the 9th district of Illinois
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Sunday July 19, 2009
Thomas Frank, author of What's the Matter with Kansas?
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Sunday July 12, 2009
Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Sunday July 05, 2009
John Wilson, author of President Barack Obama: A More Perfect Union
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Sunday June 28, 2009
Susan Linn, Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children's Center
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Sunday June 21, 2009
Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
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Sunday June 14, 2009
David Niewert, author of The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right
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Sunday June 07, 2009
Ralph Nader, the consumer advocate and former presidential candidate
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Sunday May 31, 2009
Noam Chomsky, prominent linguist and political activist
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Sunday May 24, 2009
Rob Weissman, editor of Multinational Monitor magazine
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Sunday May 17, 2009
Chris Hedges, columnist for Truthdig
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Sunday May 10, 2009
David Barsamian, host and producer of Alternative Radio
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Sunday May 03, 2009
Danny Schechter, the News Dissector
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Sunday April 26, 2009
Kevin Phillips, author of Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
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Sunday April 12, 2009
Amy Goodman, host of the radio show Democracy Now!
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Sunday April 05, 2009
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation
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Sunday March 29, 2009
Glenn Greenwald
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Sunday March 22, 2009
Craig Aaron, Acting Senior Program Director of Free Press
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Sunday March 15, 2009
Robert Greenwald, founder and president of Brave New Films
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Sunday March 08, 2009
Greg Mitchell, the editor of Editor & Publisher
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Sunday March 01, 2009
Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan
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Sunday February 22, 2009
Matt Taibbi, journalist and political writer at Rolling Stone
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Sunday February 15, 2009
Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine
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Sunday February 08, 2009
Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research
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Sunday February 01, 2009
Susan Douglas, Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan
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Sunday January 25, 2009
James Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
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Sunday January 18, 2009
Ben Scott, Policy Director, and Derek Turner, Research Director, with Free Press
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Sunday January 11, 2009
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
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Sunday January 04, 2009
Deepa Kumar on the limitations of the corporate media system
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Sunday December 28, 2008
Andrew Bacevich, author of The Limits of Power: American Exceptionalism
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Sunday December 21, 2008
Advertising and Marketing to Children, with Juliet Schor.
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Sunday December 14, 2008
Toby Miller, author of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention.
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Sunday December 07, 2008
US Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio
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Sunday November 23, 2008
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation
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Sunday November 16, 2008
Diane Farsetta and Judith Siers-Poisson of the Center for Media and Democracy
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Sunday November 09, 2008
Our guest this week is Aaron Glantz, an independent journalist who specializes on the impact of war.
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Sunday November 02, 2008
David Sirota, author of Hostile Takeover (2006) and The Uprising (2008)
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Sunday November 02, 2008
What to Expect From the 2008 Election, with Journalist David Sirota
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Sunday October 26, 2008
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States
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Sunday October 19, 2008
John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, and others join us for a 2-hour Pledge Drive Special from noon to 2 pm Central
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Sunday October 12, 2008
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine
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Sunday October 05, 2008
Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic Policy Research, author of the CEPR report "The United States and the World: Where Are We Headed?"
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Sunday September 28, 2008
Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, authors of The Nation article "Bridge Loan to Nowhere"
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Sunday September 21, 2008
Political journalist David Sirota, author of The Uprising
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Sunday September 14, 2008
Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive magazine
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Sunday September 07, 2008
Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of media ecology at New York University
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Sunday August 31, 2008
Alexander Cockburn, editor of Counterpunch
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Sunday August 24, 2008
Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
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Sunday August 17, 2008
Dave Zirin, author of A People's History of Sports in the United States
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Sunday August 10, 2008
Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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Sunday July 27, 2008
U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
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Sunday August 03, 2008
Jennifer Pozner, Executive Director of Women in Media & News
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Michael Perelman, economist at California State...
This week our guest is Michael Perelman. An economist at California State University, Chico, he has published 19 books, including The Confiscation of American Prosperity, Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest book is The Confiscation of American prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression.
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the...
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
This week our guest is Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, most recently Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.
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David Sirota, author of the New York Times best seller...
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers....
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Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy...
This week our guest is Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 700 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government...
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the...
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
This week our guest is Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, most recently Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.
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David Sirota, author of the New York Times best seller...
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers....
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Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy...
This week our guest is Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 700 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government...
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the...
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
This week our guest is Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, most recently Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.
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David Sirota, author of the New York Times best seller...
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers....
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the...
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
This week our guest is Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby is the author of seven previous books, most recently Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, which was named a Notable Book of 2004 by the Washington Post and The Times Literary Supplement.
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David Sirota, author of the New York Times best seller...
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota is a political journalist, New York Times bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist living in Denver. He is a senior fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network. He writes a weekly, nationally syndicated column for Creators Syndicate which was launched in the Fall of 2007 and which now appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more than 1.6 million readers....
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Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy...
This week our guest is Amy Goodman, host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 700 TV and radio stations in North America. Time Magazine named Democracy Now! its "Pick of the Podcasts," along with NBC's Meet the Press. Goodman is the co-author with her brother, journalist David Goodman, of three New York Times bestsellers, Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times (2008), Static: Government...
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the...
This week our guest is Jeremy Scahill. Scahill is the author of the bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, published by Nation Books. He is an award-winning investigative journalist and correspondent for the national radio and TV program Democracy Now!
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