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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 Lipsyt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
"The Filter Bubble" author Eli Pariser on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyCall 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 fighting terrorism. In the following weeks, over half a million people from 192 countries signed on, and Eli rather unexpectedly became an online organizer.
The we ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Jeremy Holden, Media Matters for AmericaJeremy 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 fram ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Nicholas Carr, Author of The ShallowsNicholas 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.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Media Matters Fundraiser 1-3pm SundayJoin 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 wil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ralph Nader on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyJoin 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 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Editor of The Progressive, Matthew RothschildMatthew 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, e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Editor of The Progressive, Matthew RothschildMatthew 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, e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyKatrina 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 S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Katrina vanden Heuvel on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyKatrina 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 S ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Dean Baker and Bob discuss EconomicsDean 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 Mont ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Dean Baker and Bob discuss EconomicsDean 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 Mont ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
McChesney talks with Frances Fox PivenDistinguished 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 o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
McChesney talks with Frances Fox PivenDistinguished 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 o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Illinois Public Media and Media Matters with Bob McChesney host David Sirota, Sunday 1pmIn 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).
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Illinois Public Media and Media Matters with Bob McChesney host David Sirota, Sunday 1pmIn 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).
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Jeff Cohen, Founder Fairness & Accuracy in ReportingJeff Cohen, media critic and lecturer, is founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is an associate professor of journalism. His latest book is Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. Join Bob and Jeff Cohen by calling and commenting Sunday at 1pm.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Jeff Cohen, Founder Fairness & Accuracy in ReportingJeff Cohen, media critic and lecturer, is founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he is an associate professor of journalism. His latest book is Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media. Join Bob and Jeff Cohen by calling and commenting Sunday at 1pm.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
John Nichols and McChesney discuss Nichol's book The S WordNichols is the author of The Genius of Impeachment (The New Press); a critically acclaimed analysis of the Florida recount fight of 2000, Jews for Buchanan (The New Press); and a best-selling biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, Dick: The Man Who is President (The New Press), which has recently been published in French and Arabic. He edited Against the Beast: A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire (Nation Books), of which historian Howard Zinn said: "At exactly the time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
John Nichols and McChesney discuss Nichol's book The S WordNichols is the author of The Genius of Impeachment (The New Press); a critically acclaimed analysis of the Florida recount fight of 2000, Jews for Buchanan (The New Press); and a best-selling biography of Vice President Dick Cheney, Dick: The Man Who is President (The New Press), which has recently been published in French and Arabic. He edited Against the Beast: A Documentary History of American Opposition to Empire (Nation Books), of which historian Howard Zinn said: "At exactly the time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Cenk Uygur of MSNBC Live and The Young Turks on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyCenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show. The show has partnership deals on the web with You Tube, AOL, Airamerica.com and TidalTV.com. The Young Turks is one of the Top 100 You Tube Partners, with over 8 million views a month on their You Tube Channel.
The Young Turks premiered on Sirius Satellite Radio in the first quarter of 2002 as the platform's first original program before moving to XM Satellite Radio in 2006.
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Cenk Uygur of MSNBC Live and The Young Turks on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyCenk Uygur is host of The Young Turks, the first ever live, daily web television talk show. The show has partnership deals on the web with You Tube, AOL, Airamerica.com and TidalTV.com. The Young Turks is one of the Top 100 You Tube Partners, with over 8 million views a month on their You Tube Channel.
The Young Turks premiered on Sirius Satellite Radio in the first quarter of 2002 as the platform's first original program before moving to XM Satellite Radio in 2006.
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Pledge DriveJoin McChesney and special guests Janine Jackson, Noam Chomsky and Bill Moyers and show your support of National Public Radio. Pledge during the show and listen as Bob and these respected journalists discuss how important it is to support NPR is this time of fiscal crisis. Call (217)244-9455 between 1:00 and 3:00pm Sunday, or give online at willpledge.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Pledge DriveJoin McChesney and special guests Janine Jackson, Noam Chomsky and Bill Moyers and show your support of National Public Radio. Pledge during the show and listen as Bob and these respected journalists discuss how important it is to support NPR is this time of fiscal crisis. Call (217)244-9455 between 1:00 and 3:00pm Sunday, or give online at willpledge.org.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Robert Scheer on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyRobert Scheer, editor in chief of Truthdig, has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and he went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent politic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Robert Scheer on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyRobert Scheer, editor in chief of Truthdig, has built a reputation for strong social and political writing over his 30 years as a journalist. His columns appear in newspapers across the country, and his in-depth interviews have made headlines. He conducted the famous Playboy magazine interview in which Jimmy Carter confessed to the lust in his heart and he went on to do many interviews for the Los Angeles Times with Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and many other prominent politic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of EverythingSiva Vaidhynathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. From 1999 through the summer of 2007 he worked in the Department of Culture and Communication at New York University. Vaidhyanathan is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, http:/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Anya Schiffrin, author of BAD NEWS: How America’s Business Press Missed the Story of the CenturyAnya Schiffrin is the director of the media and communications program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she has been teaching since 2003.
Schiffrin worked as a financial and business journalist for eight years. A former Knight-Bagehot Fellow, she was a bureau chief at Dow Jones Newswires in Amsterdam and Hanoi and has worked as a reporter in Turkey, Pakistan, Spain and the U.K. She is the editor of several journalism manuals and textbooks. Her mos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Juan Cole and McChesney discuss the Middle EastJuan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Malkia Cyril, Founder of Center for Media JusticeMalkia Cyril is the Executive Director and founder of the Center for Media Justice. With more than 15 years’ experience as an award-winning organizer and communications leader, Malkia has helped to build dozens of local and national alliances, and is the author of numerous essays and articles on media, marginalization, and movement building. Malkia has appeared in award-winning documentaries such as Outfoxed, Broadcast Blues, and MissRepresentation, and spends an inordinate amount of time ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Pat Butler, CEO of Association of Public Television Stations join McChesney and PearcePatrick Butler, public TV’s new chief lobbyist, wrote speeches for President Gerald Ford, was a founder of the Pew Research Center, and helped provide Ken Burns with funding for his acclaimed Civil War documentary series. Butler started work as president of the Association of Public Television Stations Jan. 1 [2011]. The APTS leader has represented major media firms in Washington — the Washington Post Co. for 18 years, and before that Times Mirror Co. and RCA. Join Bob and Director of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Mary Bottari, Director Center's Real Economy Project & Editor BanksterUSAMary Bottari is an experienced policy wonk and she previously served as a Senior Analyst for the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group Public Citizen in its Global Trade Watch division. Listen as she and Bob discuss BanksterUSA and call with your questions and comments.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
FCC Commissioner Michael CoppsMichael Copps joined the FCC on May 31, 2001 and was sworn in for his second term in December 2005.
Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at a Fortune 500 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
McChesney Encore ProgramListen to McChesney speak at the University of Illinois YMCA Speaker's Forum recorded in September and aired on WILL AM580 in October, 2010. The topic is "Farewell to Journalism? The Battle to Build News Media and American Democracy," Listen and enjoy!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Jennifer Pozner, author of Reality Bites Back on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyJennifer L. Pozner founded Women In Media & News in 2001 to increase women's presence and power in the public debate through media analysis, education, advocacy and reform.
A widely published journalist and media critic, Pozner formerly directed the Women's Desk at the national media watch group FAIR, where she was a staff writer for Extra! magazine and the organizer of the national Feminist Coalition on Public Broadcasting. She also served as Media Watch columnist and contributing media ed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Jennifer Pozner, author of Reality Bites Back on Media Matters with Bob McChesneyJennifer L. Pozner founded Women In Media & News in 2001 to increase women's presence and power in the public debate through media analysis, education, advocacy and reform.
A widely published journalist and media critic, Pozner formerly directed the Women's Desk at the national media watch group FAIR, where she was a staff writer for Extra! magazine and the organizer of the national Feminist Coalition on Public Broadcasting. She also served as Media Watch columnist and contributing media ed ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Craig Aaron, Managing Director of Free PressCraig Aaron, Managing Director, leads all Free Press program, advocacy, and public education work. He works in the Washington office and speaks often on media, Internet and journalism issues. His commentaries appear regularly in the Guardian and the Huffington Post. He recently edited and co-authored the book Changing Media: Public Interest Policies for the Digital Age. Before joining Free Press, he was an investigative reporter for Public Citizen's Congress Watch. Craig previously worked a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Robert Pollin on the American EconomyRobert Pollin is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research centers on macroeconomics, conditions for low-wage workers in the U.S. and globally, the analysis of financial markets, and the economics of building a clean-energy economy in the U.S. His books include A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (co-authored, 2008); An E ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Wendell Potter joins Bob - Call and Comment!Wendell Potter writes, "Since I walked away as head of communications at a top health insurance company in May of 2008, I've worked tirelessly as an outspoken critic of corporate PR and the distortion and fear manufactured by America’s health insurance industry. It is a PR juggernaut that is bankrolled by millions of dollars, rivaling lobbying budgets and underwriting many "non-partisan" and "grassroots" organizations."
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Wendell Potter joins Bob - Call and Comment!Wendell Potter writes, "Since I walked away as head of communications at a top health insurance company in May of 2008, I've worked tirelessly as an outspoken critic of corporate PR and the distortion and fear manufactured by America’s health insurance industry. It is a PR juggernaut that is bankrolled by millions of dollars, rivaling lobbying budgets and underwriting many "non-partisan" and "grassroots" organizations."
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Professor Sundiata Keita Cha -Jua, Associate Professor Dept. of HistoryListen Sunday as University of Illinois Associate Professor Sundiata Keita Cha -Jua in the Department of History and Bob talk about the special issues of Black political economy and politics. Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, 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 Pe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Chalmers Johnson 1931-2010Repeat of interview recorded last spring between Bob and the late Chalmers Johnson.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Chris Hedges and Bob McChesney Sunday at 1pmChris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Call and comment during this live program. http://www.truthdig.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Chris Hedges and Bob McChesney Sunday at 1pmChris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Call and comment during this live program. http://www.truthdig.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
McChesney hosts Andre SchiffrinAndre Schiffrin has been a leading figure in the book publishing world for nearly 50 years. As head of Pantheon books Andre Schiffrin edited titles by Jean-Paul Sartre, Studs Terkel, Art Spiegelman, Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. In 1990 he resigned and set up the non-profit publishing house The New Press. Schiffrin has also written several of his own books.including A Political Education (Melville House), in which he examines socialist ideas in postwar America. http://www.versobooks.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Sunday December 05, 2010Lisa Graves, Executive Director for The Center for Media and Democracy joins BobListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Sunday November 28, 2010McChesney and Nichols discuss "The Money and Media Election Complex"Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |