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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