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 Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Sundays from 1 to 2 pm Central
Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests.
Listeners may call with comments or questions.
Bob McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
“The media are central to all our lives,” he says. “Yet the media are the most frequently misunderstood parts of our lives. We want to help people understand the role of media in society.”
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This week on Media Matters
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April 4, 2004 |
Susan Douglas, author of The Mommy Myth: The Idealization
of Motherhood and How it has Undermined Women
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March 28, 2004 |
Laura Flanders, author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species
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March 21, 2004 |
Richard
Maxwell, CUNY professor and author
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March 14, 2004 |
John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation
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March 7, 2004 |
Charles Lewis, founder and director of the Center for
Public Integrity and author of the new book, The Buying of
the President
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Feb 29, 2004 |
Molly
Ivins, nationally syndicated columnist and best-selling author
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Feb 22, 2004 |
Ben Scott, media scholar and congressional staffer for
Independent Congressman Bernie Sanders, will discuss the recent
and ongoing fight against media conglomeration
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Feb 15, 2004 |
Al Franken, comedian and political satirist
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Feb 8, 2004 |
Linda Foley, president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications
Workers of America
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Feb 1, 2004 |
Robert Pollin, UMass economist, will discuss his new book, Contours
of Descent.
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Jan 25, 2004 |
Paul Krugman, Princeton economist, columnist for the New York
Times, and author of The Great Unraveling. |
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Jan 18, 2004 |
Visiting
professor in Afro-American studies, William Patterson, and
long-time radio activist, Kimberlie Kranich, discuss the importance
of local radio and their innovative work with engaging high school
students in producing their own radio documentaries. |
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Jan 11, 2004 |
Professors
Chris Martin and Frank Emspak discuss mainstream media coverage of
labor issues. Martin's new book is titled Framed: Labor and
the Corporate Media. |
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Jan 4, 2004 |
Douglas Rushkoff, author of nine best-selling
books on new media and popular culture, discusses the role of the
internet within changing political processes. |
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Dec 28, 2003 |
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine.
(Rebroadcast of Nov. 23 program). |
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Dec 21, 2003 |
David Corn, author of the recent best-selling
book, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics
of Deception. |
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Dec 14, 2003 |
Preempted for coverage of Senator Paul Simon's funeral |
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Dec 7, 2003 |
Bernie Sanders, Independent congressman from Vermont. Congressman Sanders
discusses media reform and other pressing issues.
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Nov 30, 2003
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Dan Schiller, Professor, Institute of Communications Research,
University of Illinois
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Nov 23, 2003
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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation magazine.
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Nov 16, 2003
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Amy
Goodman, executive producer and co-host of Democracy Now.
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Nov 9, 2003
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Michael
Copps, FCC Commissioner, talks about weighty issues facing the
commission on rules for media ownership and the public interest
(archive from February 23, 2003)
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Nov 2, 2003
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Joe Conason, columnist for Salon and The New York
Observer, discusses his new book Big Lies: The
Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth.
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Oct 26, 2003
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Alexander Cockburn, one of America's best-known investigative journalists, and co-editor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the
muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. Cockburn talks about
his new book, The Politics of Anti-Semitism.
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Oct 19, 2003
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John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation,
will talk about media and politics (this show
aired during pledge drive week, and will not be archived).
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Oct 12, 2003
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Peter
Hart of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) discusses his
new book, The Oh Really? Factor: Unspinning Fox News
Channel's Bill O'Reilly.
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Oct 5, 2003
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Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sept 28, 2003
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John
Wilson, co-founder of The Indy, talks about academic freedom and
the role of ideology in academia.
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Sept 21, 2003
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Jim
Bouton, former pitcher for the Yankees, discusses the political
economy of baseball stadiums and his new book, Foul Ball:
My Life and Hard Times Trying to Save an Old
Ballpark.
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Sept 14, 2003
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Danny
Schechter talks about media coverage of the war in Iraq and his
new book Embedded: Weapons of Mass
Deception.
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Sept 7, 2003
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David
Sirota of the Center for American Progress.
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Aug 31, 2003
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Francis
Boyle of the Law school at the University of Illinois.
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Aug 24, 2003
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Art
McGee, coordinator of AntiRacismNet, talks about race and the
media.
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Aug 17, 2003
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Cary
Nelson of the English department at the University of Illinois
talks about working conditions and academic life.
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Aug 10, 2003
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Pete
Tridish of the Prometheus radio project.
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Aug 3, 2003
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John
Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, authors of "Weapons of Mass
Deception" talk about their book.
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July 27, 2003
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Kalle
Lasn, co-founder of Adbusters talks about 'culture jamming' and
the commercialization of American media
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July 20, 2003
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David Roediger and Sundiata Cha-Jua talk about Race and Media
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July 13, 2003
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Saul Landau, internationally-known scholar, author, commentator, and filmmaker.
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July 6, 2003
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Historian Jim Weinstein talks about the American Left and his
new book "The Long Detour"
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June 29, 2003
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Amy
Goodman talks about media and civic engagement
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June 22, 2003
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Michael
Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine and Znet talks about his new
book "Parecon: Life After Capitalism"
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June 15, 2003
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Peace
activist and scholar Rahul Mahajan talks about post-war Iraq
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8, 2003
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Sascha Meinrath and Danielle Chynoweth from the Urbana-Champaign
Independent Media Center
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1, 2003
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Christian Sandvig, University of Illinois
professor of Speech Communication
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25, 2003
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Jenny Toomey, the Executive Director
of The Future of Music Coalition
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| May
18, 2003
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Dean Baker, co-director of the Center
for Economic and Policy Research
talks to us about the current economy
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| May
11, 2003
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Danny
Schechter, founder of "MediaChannel.org", talks to us
about media wars in the news coverage of the war on terror.
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| May
4, 2003
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Matthew Rothschild, editor of the Progressive magazine,
talks to us about journalism and politics.
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| April
27, 2003
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Reese
Erlich, 35 year veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and
radio producer, talks to us about the media coverage of the war
in Iraq and its aftermath.
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| April
20, 2003
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Ruth
Conniff, political editor for the Progressive magazine,
talks to us about the media coverage of the Democratic
Presidential candidates.
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| April
13, 2003
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Roger
Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun Times, discusses
his upcoming Overlooked Film Festival, here in Champaign-Urbana.
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| April
6, 2003
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John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation,
talks to us about media coverage of the war in Iraq, domestic
politics, and the state of media activism. (This show
aired during pledge drive week, and will not be archived)
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March 30, 2003
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Preempted for coverage of the war in Iraq
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March
23, 2003
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Preempted for coverage of the war in Iraq
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March 16, 2003
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Film and television director/producer Robert Greenwald and actor
Mike Farrell talk with us about celebrity and politics and the
Hollywood anti-war movement.
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March 9, 2003
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Mark Weisbrot, currently Co-Director of the Center for Economic
and Policy Research, in Washington, D.C. discusses media
coverage of the Bush economic policy and tax cuts.
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March 2, 2003
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Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? The Truth About
Bias and the News debunks the myth of the liberal media and
describes the conservative politics of the mainstream news.
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Feb 23, 2003
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Michael
Copps, FCC Commissioner, talks about weighty issues facing the
commission on rules for media ownership and the public interest
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Feb 16, 2003
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Norman Solomon, the executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and the author of Target Iraq (with Reese
Erlich), talks about the media coverage of the build-up toward a possible conflict with Iraq, the antiwar protests, and what we don't hear in the news
media
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Feb 9, 2003
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Rebroadcast of program from December 22, 2002
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Feb 2, 2003
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Marc Cooper, the contributing editor for The Nation magazine, executive producer and host of The Nation's syndicated weekly radio show
RadioNation, and specialist in Latin American politics and media talks about the World Social Forum in Brazil and US media coverage of Latin
America
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Jan 26, 2003
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Laura Flanders, the noted journalist and media critic, talks about the media coverage of the anti-war protests, the Bush administration, and the state of progressive, alternative media
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Jan 12, 2003
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Mike
Knezovich, Jenny Southlynn and Carl Estabrook talk about the demise of the Champaign-Urbana Cityview weekly. Knezovich is the former senior editor, Southlynn the former arts and entertainment editor and Estabrook a former columnist
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Jan 5, 2003
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David
Barsamian, the founder of Alternative Radio, media critic, and highly acclaimed progressive author of The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting discusses the current state of politics and the media
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Dec 29, 2002
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David
Lindorff, the investigative journalist who exposed the link between Attorney General Ashcroft's TIPS program and the FOX television network's program America's Most Wanted. He is also author of
Killing Time, a new look at the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
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Dec 22, 2002
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Jean Kilbourne on advertising, specifically alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. She is best known for her documentaries Killing Us Softly, Slim Hopes and Pack of Lies
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Dec 15, 2002
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Robert Jensen, professor of journalism at the University of Texas and author of Writing Dissent: Taking Radical Ideas from the Margins to the Mainstream talks about media coverage of the Bush administration, the Trent Lott scandal, and the build-up to war in Iraq
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Dec 8, 2002
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Stephen
Zunes, professor of politics and chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco on U.S. Middle East policy
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Dec 1, 2002
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Dan Cook and James
Twitchell, on advertising and branding in American culture
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Nov 24, 2002
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Steven Hill and Dan
Johnson-Weinberger from the Center for Voting And Democracy, a West Coast non-profit that educates the public on the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, redistricting and campaign finance
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Nov 17, 2002
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Shelby Scott and Linda Foley -- Shelby Scott is the former National President of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and served as chair of AFTRA's Women's Committee and of its Broadcast Steering Committee. Linda Foley is president of the Newspaper Guild, Communications Workers of America. She was elected secretary-treasurer of the Guild in 1993 and Guild President in 1995.
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Nov 10, 2002
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Thomas Frank, author
One Market Under God and The Conquest of Cool, and currently editor of The Baffler.
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Nov 3, 2002
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University of Illinois Press Director Bill Regier and Editor-in-Chief Joan Catapano
discuss the state of university publishing.
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Oct 27, 2002
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Carl
Estabrook, Illinois 15th Congressional District Green Party Candidate
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Oct 20, 2002
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Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a nationwide consortium of public-policy researchers. He is the author of "Media Beat," a nationally syndicated column on media and politics that appears in the San Francisco Examiner and other daily newspapers
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Oct 13, 2002
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John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation,
talks to us about media coverage of the Bush administration, domestic
politics, and the state of media activism.
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Oct 6, 2002
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Dan Schiller, professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and author of five books on communications, discussing the meltdown of the US telecommunications industry, why it happened, what it means, and where it's going
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Sept 29, 2002
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Francis Boyle, professor of law at the University of Illinois. In 2000, he was appointed Attorney of Record for the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria to conduct its legal affairs on a worldwide basis. Boyle brought charges against the Russian Federation at the International Court of Justice for violating the 1948 Genocide Convention
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Sept 1, 2002
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Author
Barbara Ehrenreich discusses her new book, Nickeled and Dimed,
and the state of the working poor in America.
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Aug 25, 2002
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Media propoganda with Nancy Snow, assistant professor of global communications at California State University in Fullerton, and an adjunct professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at
USC. Dr. Snow is the author of the upcoming
Information War: American Propaganda, Opinion Control and Free Speech since 9/11
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Aug 18, 2002
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Lawrence
Lessig, Stanford Law Professor and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society, and author of
The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
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Aug 11, 2002
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Craig Aaron, managing editor of "In These Times", a national, biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in Chicago
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July 28, 2002
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Race, Bias, and Journalism with Walter Harrington and Leon Dash. A professor in the UIUC department of journalism, Harrington was a reporter for the Washington Post before coming to U of I. Leon Dash is a professor in the U of I Department of Journalism, and was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the Washington Post
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July 21, 2002
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The Media And Commercialism with Carrie McLaren and Gary Ruskin. McLaren self-publishes Stay Free!, a magazine about American media and consumer culture. She works at the Berkeley Carroll School, and is also the curator of the upcoming Illegal Art exhibit, which looks at the effect of copyright law on freedom of expression. Ruskin is executive director of Commercial Alert, which he co-founded with Ralph
Nader. He is also director of the Congressional Accountability Project, which opposes corruption in the U.S. Congress. He is author of
Why They Whine: How Corporations Prey on Our Children, Bush's War on
Children, and Let's Keep Advertising and Market Research out of the Classroom
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July 14, 2002
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Media Education with Sut
Jhally. Jhally is well known through his controversial and award-winning film
Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video (over which MTV threatened to sue). The Los Angeles Times called the film "a scathing examination of pop video's use and abuse of women." As the founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation he is also the producer of another dozen films dealing with issues from commercialism and popular culture to violence and gender
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July 7, 2002
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Labor reporting with Frank
Emspak, Professor in the department of Labor Education, University of Wisconsin Extension. For the last 10 years Frank has been teaching and working with unions and prior to 1991 he was the project director of the Massachusetts Center for Applied technology - one of the first manufacturing extension services in the country
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June 30, 2002
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The
Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment with Michael
Delli Carpini, author of What Americans Know About Politics
and Why It Matters; and Bruce Williams, author of Democracy,
Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes and professor at the
Institute of Communications Research at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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June 23, 2002
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Local music with Larry Williams, owner of WWHP, Phil Strang, owner of Record Service, and Holly
Rushakoff, music host on WEFT, and writer for CU Cityview
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June 16, 2002
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Public Relations, with John
Stauber, investigative writer and founder of the Center for Media & Democracy
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June 9, 2002
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The Independent Media Center Movement, with Danielle Chynoweth and Sascha
Meinrath, founding members of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center
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June 2, 2002
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The Chinese Media System, with Yuezhi
Zhao, professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University; and Dan Schiller, professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences and the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois
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May 26, 2002
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Kristina
Borjesson, independent writer, producer, and co-host of the Expert Witness Radio Show; and Gary Webb, investigative reporter
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May 19, 2002
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Jim Hightower, commentator and populist
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May 12, 2002
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Norman Solomon, executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of syndicated column Media Beat; and Trudy Lieberman, contributing editor of Columbia Journalism Review and health policy editor for Consumer Reports
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May 5, 2002
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Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist and author of the international best-seller
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
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April 28, 2002
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Mark
Crispin Miller, author of The Bush Dyslexicon
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April 21, 2002
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Janine Jackson, Program Director, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), co-host of CounterSpin
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April 14, 2002
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Greg
Palast, investigative reporter with the BBC
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April 7, 2002
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John Nichols, Associate Editor, Capital Times, Madison, Wisconsin
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