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May 4, 2008 |
This week our guest is Janine Jackson of
media watchdog FAIR. Jackson is FAIR's program director and a
frequent contributor to FAIR's magazine, Extra!. She co-edited
The FAIR Reader: An Extra! Review of Press and Politics in
the '90s (Westview Press), and she co-hosts and produces
FAIR's syndicated radio show CounterSpin - a weekly program of
media criticism airing on more than 150 stations around the
country.
Counterspin can be heard in the Urbana-Champaign area on WILL
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April 27, 2008 |
This week our guest is journalist Patrick
Cockburn. He has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979,
previously for the Financial Times and currently for The
Independent. Cockburn has written four books on Iraq. Two, Out
of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein and Saddam
Hussein: An American Obsession, were written with his brother
Andrew Cockburn prior to the war in Iraq. Two more were written
by Patrick alone after the U.S. invasion, following his award-
winning reporting from Iraq.
His most recent book is Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia
Revival,and the Struggle for Iraq.
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April 20, 2008 |
This week our guest is Norman Solomon,
author of "Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's
Warfare State" (October 2007).
A familiar voice for Media Matters listeners, Solomon is a
nationally
syndicated columnist on media and politics. He is founder and
executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a
national
consortium of policy researchers and analysts, and has been
writing the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992.
Solomon's book "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep
Spinning Us to Death" was published in 2005. The Los Angeles
Times called the book "brutally persuasive" and "a must-read for
those who would like greater context with their bitter morning
coffee, or to arm themselves for the debates about Iraq that are
still to come." A documentary based on the book was released in
2007.
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April 13, 2008 |
This week our guest is Professor Joseph
Stiglitz, the Nobel medal winning economist, and former
vice-President and chief economist of the World Bank. He is the
author, most recently, of The Three-Trillion Dollar War.
http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E._Stiglitz
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April 6, 2008 |
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March 30, 2008 |
This week our guest is Ishmael Reed, the
poet, essayist and novelist. Since 1990 he has edited Konch
magazine, available online since 1998, a "publication for the
rest of us" that concentrates on "publishing writers from the
world over who address the important issues of our time."
Reed's best-known works include The Free-Lance Pallbearers
(1967, Reed's first novel), Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969),
Mumbo Jumbo (1972), Flight to Canada (1976), The Last Days of
Louisiana Red (1974), Reckless Eyeballing (1986), and Japanese
By Spring (1993). He has published more than a dozen books,
including nine novels, four collections of poetry, six plays,
four collections of essays, and one libretto. His New and
Collected Poems, 1964-2007, received the Commonwealth Club of
Califfornia's Gold Medal.
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/
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March 23, 2008 |
This week our guest is FCC Commissioner
Jonathan Adelstein on regulating the media industry
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March 16, 2008 |
This week our guest is Mark Weisbrot,
co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Weisbrot received his Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Michigan. He is co-author, with
Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of
Chicago Press, 2000), and has written numerous research papers
on economic policy.He writes a column on economic and policy
issues that is distributed to over 550 newspapers by
McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. His opinion pieces have
appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the
Boston Globe, and most major U.S. newspapers. He appears
regularly on national and local television and radio programs.
He is also president of Just Foreign Policy.
http://www.cepr.net
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org
This is a pre-recorded show.
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March 9, 2008 |
This week our guest is Greg Mitchell, the
editor of Editor & Publisher. His latest book is called "So
Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits -- and the
President -- Failed in Iraq" (Union Square Press). It includes a
preface by Bruce Springsteen and a foreword by war reporter
Joseph L.Galloway.
Over the past five years, Mitchell's weekly column “Pressing
Issues,”
has intensely scrutinized the coverage of the Iraq war, the
media’s views of the credibility of the Bush Administration, and
such related topics as 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, and the CIA
Leak Case. Now, as the war in Iraq reaches its 5th anniversary,
this first-ever collection, with more than 75 of Mitchell’s
columns, provides a unique history of the conflict, from the
hyped WMD stories to the “surge."
Mitchell has written eight books, including Hiroshima in America
(with Robert Jay Lifton) and The Campaign of the Century: Upton
Sinclair's Race for Governor of California and the Birth of
Media Politics, and his articles have appeared in dozens of
leading newspapers and magazines.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp
http://www.powells.com/biblio/8-9781402756573-0
http://www.amazon.com/So-Wrong-Long-Pundits-President-Failed/dp/1402756577
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March 2, 2008 |
This week our guest is Alex Gibney, 2008
Academy Award winner for Best Documentary Feature for his film
Taxi to the Dark Side. Gibney received his first Academy Award
nomination for "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," which he
wrote, produced and directed. Taxi to the Dark Side, which was
filmed in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and various U.S.
locations, is Gibney's directorial follow-up to "Enron" and made
its world premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, where it
won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary.
At the Sundance Film Festival this year, Gibney premiered
another
documentary feature he directed about Hunter Thomspon entitled
"Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" and which
will be released theatrically by Magnolia Pictures.
Taxi to the Dark Side is an investigation into the reckless
abuse of
power by the Bush Administration. By probing the homicide of an
innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in
Afghanistan, the film exposes a worldwide policy of detention
and interrogation that condones torture and the abrogation of
human rights.
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February 24, 2008 |
This week our guest is Glen Ford,
executive director of Black Agenda Report. He has extensive
experience in radio and television, where he launched
influential programming like America's Black Forum, the first
nationally syndicated Black news interview program on commercial
television, and Rap It Up. Ford co-founded BlackCommentator.com
(BC) in 2002. The weekly journal quickly became the most
influential Black political site on the Net. In October, 2006,
Ford and others left BC to launch BlackAgendaReport.com.
In addition to his broadcast and Internet experience, Glen Ford
was national political columnist for Encore American & Worldwide
News magazine; founded The Black Commentator and Africana
Policies magazines; authored The Big Lie: An Analysis of U.S.
Media Coverage of the Grenada Invasion (IOJ, 1985); and served
as reporter and editor for three newspapers (two daily, one
weekly).
http://www.blackagendareport.com
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February 17, 2008 |
This week our guest is Naomi Wolf, the
noted feminist and author. "The Beauty Myth," her first book,
was an international bestseller. She followed that with "Fire
With Fire: The New Female Power and How It Will Change The 21st
Century" and "Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle for Womanhood."
Several other books followed.
Her most recent book is "The End of America: Letter of Warning
to a Young Patriot" in which she explains how events of the last
six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th
century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China,
and Chile.
She is co-founder of The Woodhull Institute for Ethical
Leadership,
an organization devoted to training young women in ethical
leadership for the 21st century. The institute teaches
professional development in the arts and media, politics and
law, business and
entrepreneurship as well as ethical decision making.
http://chelseagreen.com/2007/items/endofamerica
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February 10, 2008 |
This week our guest is Juan Gonzalez,
co-host of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent,
award-winning news program hosted by Gonzalez and Amy Goodman.
Gonzalez has also been a columnist at the New York Daily News
since 1988. He has won numerous awards for his investigative
reporting including the George Polk Award in 1998 and was
recently elected President of the National Association of
Hispanic Journalists.
Juan’s most recent book Fallout: The Environmental
Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse documents
cover-ups by Environmental Protection Agency and government
officials about health hazards at Ground Zero in New York. He is
also the author of the book, Harvest of Empire: The History
of Latinos in America.
You can listen online at http://www.democracy.org or check for
stations in your area.
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February 3, 2008 |
This week our guest is Stephen Kinzer.
Kinzer is a veteran New York Times correspondent who has
reported from more than fifty countries on five continents. His
books include "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change
from Hawaii to Iraq" and "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup
and the Roots of Middle East Terror."
On Sunday February 17, at 3pm in the University YMCA (Champaign,
IL, Kinzer will speak as part of a national speaking tour
organized by Just Foreign Policy, "The Folly of Attacking Iran."
Other dates and venues are available here:
http://follyofattackingiran.org
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org
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January 27, 2008 |
This week our guest is David Sirota. Sirota
is a political
journalist, nationally syndicated weekly newspaper columnist and
bestselling author living in Denver. He is widely known for his
reporting on political corruption, globalization and
working-class
economic issues often ignored by both of America’s political
parties.
http://davidsirota.com/
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January 20, 2008 |
This week our guest is Kathryn Montgomery.
Montgomery is a professor in the Public Communication division
of the School of Communication at American University in
Washington DC and heads the Center’s Youth, Media and Democracy
project. For 12 years, she was President of the DC-based Center
for Media Education (CME), which she co-founded in 1991. During
her tenure at CME, Montgomery’s research, publications, and
testimony helped frame the national public policy debate on a
range of critical media issues. She led a coalition of child
advocacy, health, and education groups in a series of successful
advocacy campaigns, leaving behind a legacy of policies on
behalf of children and families. They include: a Federal
Communications Commission rule requiring a minimum of three
hours per week of educational/informational television
programming for children; a
content-based ratings system for TV programs; and the first
federal legislation to protect children’s privacy on the
Internet.
Montgomery is the author of Generation Digital: Politics,
Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet, available
from MIT Press.
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January 13, 2008 |
This week our guest is journalist Hadani
Ditmars, author of Dancing in the No-Fly Zone: A Woman's
Journey Through Iraq.
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January 6, 2008 |
This week our guest is Sut Jhally. Jhally
is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts
and founder and Executive Director of the Media Education
Foundation. He is one of the world's leading scholars looking at
the role played by advertising and popular culture in the
processes of social control and identity construction. The
author of numerous books and articles on media(including The
Codes of Advertising and Enlightened Racism) he is also an
award-winning teacher.
He is best known as the producer and director of a number of
films and videos (including Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in
Music Video; Tough Guise: Media, Violence and the Crisis of
Masculinity; and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling
of American Empire) that deal with issues ranging from gender,
sexuality and race to commercialism, violence and politics. Born
in Kenya, raised in England, educated in graduate studies in
Canada, he currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
http://www.sutjhally.com/
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December 30, 2007 |
This week our guest is regular guest John
Nichols, with a live review of the year. Nichols writes about
politics for The Nation magazine as its Washington
correspondent. He is a contributing writer for The Progressive
and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital
Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin. His articles
have appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune and dozens
of other newspapers.
http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/john_nichols
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December 23, 2007 |
This week our guest is Prof. Francis Boyle.
Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of
Illinois College of Law. He is a graduate of the University of
Chicago and Harvard Law School.
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December 16, 2007 |
This week our guest is
Paul Krugman. Krugman is currently a professor of
economics and international affairs at
Princeton University. He is also an author and a
columnist for
The New York Times, writing a twice-weekly op-ed for the
newspaper since 2000. His most recent book is "The Conscience of
a Liberal."
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December 9, 2007 |
This week our guest is Chris Finan. Finan
is president of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free
Expression (ABFFE), the bookseller's voice in the fight against
censorship. Chris has been involved in the fight against
censorship since 1982. He is chair of the National Coalition
Against Censorship and a trustee of the Freedom to Read
Foundation.
A native of Cleveland, Chris is a graduate of Antioch College.
After working as a newspaper reporter, he studied American
history at Columbia University, where he received his Ph.D. in
1992. He is the author most recently of "From the Palmer Raids
to the PATRIOT Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in
America" (Beacon Press, May 2007).
http://www.chrisfinan.com/
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December 2, 2007 |
This week our guest is Robert Kuttner.
Kuttner is the co-founder and current editor-in-chief of The
American Prospect. He writes regularly for the magazine on
political and economic issues. He is the author of the newly
released book "The Squandering of America: How the Failure of
Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity" (Knopf, November 2007).
Kuttner is also the author of six previous books: Everything for
Sale: The Virtues and Limits of Markets (1997); The End of
Laissez-
Faire (1991); The Life of the Party (1987); The Economic
Illusion
(1984); Revolt of the Haves (1980); and Family Re-union (2002),
co- authored with his late wife, Sharland Trotter. His
syndicated weekly editorial column originates in The Boston
Globe and appears Mondays on the Prospect website.
http://www.prospect.org/
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November 25, 2007 |
This week our guest is Lance Bennett.
Bennett is a Professor of Communication at the University of
Washington. He is also founder and director of the Center for
Communication and Civic Engagement. The Center is dedicated to
understanding how communication processes and technologies can
enhance citizen engagement with social life, politics, and
global affairs.
Bennett is author or editor of ten books, including News: The
Politics of Illusion, (Longman, 7th ed.). His most recent book
is
When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from
Iraq to Katrina (Chicago, with Regina Lawrence and Steven
Livingston).
http://depts.washington.edu/bennett/
http://www.engagedcitizen.org
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November 18, 2007 |
This week our guest is Naomi Klein. Klein
is an award-winning
journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international
bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. Her latest
book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, is an
international bestseller and was published worldwide in
September 2007.
http://www.naomiklein.org/
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November 11, 2007 |
This week our guest is Tariq Ali. Ali is a
novelist, historian, political campaigner and one of New Left Review’s editors. He is
the author of Pirates Of The Caribbean: Axis Of Hope (2006),
Conversations with Edward Said (2005), Bush in Babylon (2003),
and Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity
(2002).http://www.tariqali.org/
http://www.newleftreview.org/
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November 4, 2007 |
This week our guest is Rob Richie,
executive director of FairVote, a non-profit organization acting
to transform American elections to achieve equal access to
participation, a full spectrum of meaningful choices and
majority rule with fair representation and a voice for all. He
is co-author of Every Vote Equal about establishing a national
popular vote for president and Whose Votes Count, about
proportional voting for American elections.
www.fairvote.org
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October 28, 2007 |
This week our guest is Katrina vanden
Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation. She is the co-editor
of Taking Back America--And Taking Down The Radical Right (NationBooks,
2004) and, most recently, editor of The Dictionary of
Republicanisms, (NationBooks, 2005). Her weblog for
thenation.com is "Editor's Cut."
http://www.thenation.com/
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut
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October 21, 2007 |
This week our guest is Bill Fletcher. A
contributor to the Black
Commentator website, and a labor and international writer and
activist, Fletcher is the immediate past president of
TransAfrica
Forum.
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October 14, 2007 |
This week is our Fall Pledge Drive show.
We'll be running an extended show with scheduled callers
including Bill Moyers and Noam Chomsky.
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October 7, 2007 |
This week our guests are Matt Stoller and
Chris Bowers. Both are bloggers at the OpenLeft.com. Open Left
is a news, analysis and action website dedicated toward building
a progressive governing majority in America.
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Sept 30, 2007 |
This week our guest is Norman Stockwell.
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Sept 23, 2007 |
This week our guest is David Barsamian,
host of Alternative Radio and author most recently of
Targeting Iran. In Targeting Iran, Barsamian presents
interviews with three experts on Iran and U.S. foreign policy
who discuss the 1953 CIA coup and the rise of the Islamic
regime; Iran's internal dynamics and competing forces; relations
with Iraq and Afghanistan; and the consequences of U.S. policy.
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Sept 16, 2007 |
This week our guest is Mark Crispin Miller,
Professor at NYU and
author of Fooled Again. In Fooled Again, Miller
takes an in-depth
look at the stolen 2004 election featuring overviews of all the
vote
suppression, vote padding and other vote count manipulation that
played such an important role in the presidential election
across the
country.
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Sept 9, 2007 |
This week our guest is FCC
Commissioner Michael Copps. Mr. Copps served from 1998 until
January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade
Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mr. Copps moved
to Washington in 1970, joined the staff of Senator Fritz
Hollings (D-SC) and served for over a dozen years as
Administrative Assistant and Chief of Staff.
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Sept 2, 2007 |
This week our guests are Henry Giroux and
John Wilson. To mark Labor Day weekend they will be discussing
issues related to academic freedom and academic labor.
John Wilson is the founder of the Institute for College Freedom,
and the author of "Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and
Its Enemies."
http://www.collegefreedom.org
Henry Giroux is the author most recently of "The University in
Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex."
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August 26, 2007 |
This week our guest is Geneva Overholser,
chair of the board of directors of the Center for Public
Integrity.
A frequent print, broadcast and online media critic, Overholser
currently holds the Curtis B. Hurley Chair in Public Affairs
Reporting for the Missouri School of Journalism in its
Washington, D.C., bureau. She was editor of The Des Moines
Register from 1988 to 1995, which under her leadership won the
1990 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service and earned her
the accolades "Editor of the Year" by the National Press
Foundation and "Best in the Business" by the American Journalism
Review.
http://www.icij.net/
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August 19, 2007 |
This week our guest is John Stauber.
Stauber founded the non-profit, non-partisan Center for Media &
Democracy and its newsmagazine PR Watch in 1993 in Madison,
Wisconsin. He has since served as the Center's executive
director and has co-authored six books including the 2003 New
York Times bestseller Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of
Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq. He is an investigative writer,
public speaker and democracy advocate.
http://www.prwatch.org/
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August 12, 2007 |
This week our guest is Dean Baker,
co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in
Washington, DC
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| August 5, 2007 |
This week our guest is Danny Schechter,
founder of Media Channel. He is the author of “Embedded: Weapons
of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War”
(archive from March 25, 2007)
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| July
29, 2007 |
This week our guest is David Cobb, the 2004
presidential candidate of the Green Party and currently a Fellow
with the Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution.
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| July
22, 2007 |
This week our guest is Noam Chomsky in a
program originally broadcast in March 2006.
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| July
15, 2007 |
This week our guests are Norman Solomon and
Loretta Alper, discussing the new documentary "War Made Easy:
How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death."
Solomon is a regular guest on Media Matters, and a nationally
syndicated columnist on media and politics. He has been writing
the weekly "Media Beat" column since 1992. War Made Easy is
based on Solomon's 2005 book of the same name.
Alper has worked with the Media Education Foundation since 2000,
and is the producer of War Made Easy.
War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a
50- year pattern of government deception and media spin that has
dragged the United States into one war after another from
Vietnam to Iraq.
Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes
remarkable archival footage of official distortion and
exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning
detail how the American news media have uncritically
disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential
administrations.
http://www.warmadeeasythemovie.org/
There will be a free local screening of War Made Easy in
Champaign, IL at 7pm on August 1, at the Community United Church
(805 S. Sixth Street). The screening is hosted by Just Foreign
Policy:
http://www.justforeignpolicy.org
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| July
8, 2007 |
This week our guest is Matthew Rothschild,
author most recently of You Have No Rights: Stories of
America in an Age of Repression.
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| July
1, 2007 |
This week our guests are Derek Turner and
Joe Torres of Free Press, the media activist group. They will be
talking about radio ownership, and related policy issues
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| June
24, 2007 |
This week our guest is Dave Zirin, author
most recently of The
Muhammad Ali Handbook and Welcome to the Terrordom: the Pain,
Politics, and Promise of Sports.
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| June
17, 2007 |
This week our guest is Connie Schultz,
Pulitzer Prize- winning columnist and author most recently of .
. . . and His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the
Man
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| June
10, 2007 |
This week our guest is documentary
filmmaker and author John Pilger.
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| June
3, 2007 |
This week our guest is Barbara Ehrenreich,
author most recently of Dancing in the Streets: A History of
Collective Joy
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| May
27, 2007 |
This week our guest is Ben Scott, policy
director of Free Press
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| May
20, 2007 |
This week our guest is Sundiata Cha-Jua.
Prof. Cha-Jua is Director of the African American Studies and
Research Program at the University of Illinois.
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| May
13, 2007 |
This week our guest is actor and activist
Mike Farrell. Best known for playing Captain B.J. Hunnicutt in
the television series M*A*S*H, Farrell has also been a life-long
activist, focusing on issues such as human rights and the death
penalty, as well as animal rights and environmental issues.http://www.mikefarrell.org/
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| May 6, 2007 |
This week our guest is Greg Palast,
investigative journalist and author of Armed Madhouse
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| April
29, 2007 |
This week our guest is Davey D. Davey D is
a Hip Hop historian, journalist, deejay and community activist.
His mobile deejay work and community activism eventually lead
him deejaying at radio stations including KALX, KPFA and later
KMEL Davey D is a member of The PROs Record Pool where he
served as director for several years in the late 80s -early 90s.
He is also a co-founder of the Bay Area Hip Hop Coalition [BAHHC].
Currently he's the webmaster for what is considered one of the
oldest and largest Hip Hop sites on the web Davey D's Hip Hop
Corner:
www.daveyd.com
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| April
22, 2007 |
This week our guest is Laura Flanders,
radio host and author. Her new book is Blue Grit: True Democrats
Take Back Politics from the Politicians.
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| April
15, 2007 |
This week our guest is Benjamin Barber,
author, most recently, of Consumed: how markets corrupt
children, infantilize adults, and
swallow citizens whole
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| April
8, 2007 |
This week our guest is Michael
Albert, founder of South End Press and Z Magazine. He is the
author, most recently, of Remembering Tomorrow:
A Memoir.
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| April
1, 2007 |
This fundraising edition of Media Matters
features John Nichols, Chalmers Johnson and Amy Goodman. Guest
Host WILL Station Manager Jay Pearce.
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| March
25, 2007 |
This week our guest is Danny Schechter,
founder of Media Channel. He is the author of “Embedded: Weapons
of Mass Deception: How the Media Failed to Cover the Iraq War”
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| March
18, 2007 |
This week our guest is Andre Schiffrin,
founder of the New Press and author of A Political Education:
Coming of Age in Paris and New York.
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| March
11, 2007 |
This week our guest is Chalmers Johnson,
author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic.
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| March
4, 2007 |
This week our guest is Robert Fisk, the
award-winning journalist.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/
http://www.robert-fisk.com/
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| Feb
25, 2007 |
This week our guest is Bob Jenson,
Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at austin,
talking about media and international affairs.
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| Feb
18, 2007 |
This week our guest is Mark Lloyd senior
fellow at the Center for American Progress. His work focuses on communications policy
issues, including universal service, advanced telecommunications deployment, media concentration and diversity.
http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/staff/LloydMark.html
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| Feb
11, 2007 |
This week our guest is Eric Klinenberg,
author of Fighting For Air: The Battle to Control America's
Media (2007) and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster
in Chicago (2002).
http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/ericklinenberg.html
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| Feb 4, 2007 |
This week our guest is Jeff Chester of the
Center for Digital Democracy, and author of the new book Digital
Destiny.
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| Jan 28, 2007 |
This week our guests are Jenny Toomey and
Peter DiCola of the Future of Music Coalition.
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| Jan 21, 2007 |
This week our guest is Jules Boykoff,
author of The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass
Media Squelch US American Social Movements.
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| Jan
14, 2007 |
This week our guest is Dan Schiller,
professor of communications research, and library and
information science, University of Illinois
http://www.wmjasco.com/0512/0512.html
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| Jan
7, 2007 |
This week our guest is Judy Daubenmier,
Outfoxed researcher, contributor to News Hound, and author of
the new book Project Rewire.
http://www.wmjasco.com/0512/0512.html
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| Dec
31, 2006 |
This week our guest is Amy Goodman, host of
Democracy Now and co- author of "Static: Government liars, media
cheerleaders, and the people who fight back."
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| Dec
24, 2006 |
The guest this week is Elizabeth Fones-Wolf,
author of "Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for
Democratic Radio (University of Illinois Press)
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| Dec
17, 2006 |
This week's guest is Howard Zinn, historian
and author, most recently, of "A Power Governments Cannot
Suppress."
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| Dec
10, 2006 |
The guest is Mark Weisbrot. 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 is co-author, with Dean Baker, of
Social Security: The Phony Crisis (University of Chicago Press,
2000), and has written numerous research papers on economic
policy. He is also President of Just Foreign Policy.
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| Dec 3, 2006 |
The guest is Noam Chomsky. Chomsky has
written and lectured widely on linguistics, philosophy,
intellectual history, contemporary issues, international affairs
and U.S. foreign policy. His works include: Aspects of the
Theory of Syntax; Manufacturing Consent (with E.S. Herman);
Necessary Illusions; Deterring Democracy; Year 501; Profit Over
People; The New Military Humanism; New Horizons in the Study of
Language and Mind; Rogue States; A New Generation Draws the
Line; 9-11; and Understanding Power.
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| Nov
26, 2006 |
The guests this week are Peter Philips and
Andy Roth from Project Censored, discussing the Top 25 Censored
News Stories from 2006.
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| Nov
19, 2006 |
This guest is Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor
and publisher of The Nation.
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| Nov
12, 2006 |
This week's guests are Janine Jackson and
Steve Rendall
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| Nov 5, 2006 |
This week's guest is John Stauber
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| Oct
29, 2006 |
This week's guests are Diane Farsetta, of
PR Watch, and Paul Porter of Industry Ears, discussing issues
surrounding the use of VNRs and payola in broadcasting.
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| Oct
22, 2006 |
This week is our Fall Pledge Drive show,
with guests Amy Goodman, John Nichols, and others.
We encourage you to support WILL-AM and the work of Media
Matters - and we have some wonderful premium gifts available to
thank you for your support. You can make your donation at:
http://will.uiuc.edu/mediamatters/
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| Oct
15, 2006 |
This week's guest: FCC Commissioner
Jonathan S. Adelstein
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/adelstein/
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| Oct 8, 2006 |
This week's guest: John Nichols, author of
the new book "The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for
Royalism".
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| Oct 1, 2006 |
This week's guest: Jeff Cohen, author of
Cable News Confidential
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| Sept
24, 2006 |
This week's guests are Marvin Ammori, staff
attorney at the Institute for Public Representation at
Georgetown University Law school, and Derek Turner, research
director for Free Press, discussing The FCC and Media Ownership
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| Sept
17, 2006 |
This week's guest is Congressman
Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
http://bernie.house.gov/
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| Sept
10, 2006 |
This week's guest is filmmaker Robert
Greenwald, whose new film is Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers.
http://www.robertgreenwald.org/
http://iraqforsale.org/
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| Sept
3, 2006 |
This week's guest is Inger Stole, Professor
in the Institute of Communications Research, and author of the
recently published book "Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism
and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s."
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| Aug
27, 2006 |
This week's guest is Josh Silver, executive
director of Free Press, speaking on the topic of the media
reform movement.
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| Aug
20, 2006 |
This week's guest is John Bellamy Foster,
co-editor of Monthly Review and Professor of Sociology at the
University of Oregon.
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| Aug
13, 2006 |
This week's guest is author and media
critic Norman Solomon, author of "War
Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death."
RealAudio
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| Aug 6, 2006 |
This week's guest is Joel Bleifuss, editor
of In These Times.
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| July
30, 2006 |
This week's guest is Morris Berman, the
author most recently of "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of
Empire."
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| July
23, 2006 |
This week's guest is Alexander Cockburn,
journalist and editor of CounterPunch
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| July
16, 2006 |
This week's guest is Greg Palast,
journalist and author of Armed Madhouse.
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| July
9, 2006 |
This week's guest is Robert Jensen,
Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas.
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| July
2, 2006 |
This week's guest is Anthony Arnove, author
of Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. Anthony Arnove is
also the editor of Iraq Under Siege and co-editor, with
Howard Zinn, of Voices of a People’s History of the United
States. His writing has appeared in the Financial Times, The
Nation, Mother Jones, Monthly Review, Le Nouvel Observateur, Z
Magazine, and other publications.
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| June
25, 2006 |
This week's guest is Eric Boehlert, author
of Lapdogs: How The Press Rolled Over For Bush
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| June
19, 2006 |
This week's guests are Stephen Hartnett and
Laura Stengrim, co-authors of the recently published book,
Globalization and Empire: The U.S. Invasion of Iraq, Free
Markets, and the Twilight of Democracy. Hartnett is a
professor and Stengrim a doctoral candidate in the Department of
Speech Communication at the U of I.
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| June
11, 2006 |
This week's guest is Stephen Kinzer, author
and newspaper reporter, discussing his new book, Overthrow:
America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.
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| June
4, 2006 |
This week's guest is Laura Flanders, host
of the show Radio Nation on Air America.
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| May
28, 2006 |
This week's guest is Stephen Hill. Hill is
the Director of the Political Reform Program of the New America
Foundation and co-founder of the Center for Voting and
Democracy. His new book is titled 10 Steps to Repair American
Democracy, available from Polipoint Press.
http://10steps.net/
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| May
21, 2006 |
This week we have a special fund-drive
edition of Media Matters with Phil Donahue, Jeff Cohen, and Amy
Goodman. (This program has been edited to remove most of
the pledge breaks, but we still welcome your online contribution
at
http://www.willpledge.org.)
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| May
14, 2006 |
This week we feature speeches from the May
2005 Media Reform Conference featuring Rep. Bernie Sanders (VT),
and Linda Foley, head of the Newspaper Guild.
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| May 7, 2006 |
This week's guests are Tim Karr, of Free
Press, and Adam Green, of MoveOn.org, who will be discussing
current legislative activity in relation to the internet,
focusing in particular on what has become known as Net
Neutrality. This is a pre-recorded show, so we will not be
taking calls on air.
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| April
30, 2006 |
This week's guest is Janine Jackson, Program Director at FAIR,
the national media watch group.
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| April
23, 2006 |
This week's guest is Howard Zinn, historian and author of A
People's History of the United States.
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| April
16, 2006 |
This week's guest is Lawrence Lessig,
renowned copyright expert. Lessig is a Professor of Law at
Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for
Internet and Society. He is the author of Free Culture (2004),
The Future of Ideas (2001) and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
(1999). He chairs the Creative Commons project, and serves on
the board of the Free Software Foundation, the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, the Public Library of Science, and Public
Knowledge.
http://lessig.org
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| April
9, 2006 |
This week's guest is Markos Moulitsas
Zúniga, founder of the Daily Kos website. Markos started
DailyKos.com in May 2002. His blog has had a meteoric rise and
now gets more than a million unique visitors each day, making it
one of the most popular blogs in the nation.
http://dailykos.com
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| April
2, 2006 |
This week's guest is Matthew Rothschild,
editor of the Progressive magazine. Rothschild will be on the
campus of the University of Illinois this coming Friday. He will
be speaking (4pm, 319 Gregory Hall) on the topic "Grounds for
Impeachment: a critical analysis of the Bush record and what it
means for U.S. politics."
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| Mar
26, 2006 |
This week's guests are Harold Feld and
Sascha Meinrath. Feld is
senior Vice President of the Media Access Project, and Meinrath
is
project co-ordinator of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless
Network. They will be discussing the second National Summit on
Community Wireless Networks, taking place next week in St Louis:
http://www.cuwireless.net/summit
http://www.mediaaccess.org
http://www.cuwireless.net
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| Mar
19, 2006 |
This week's guest is Sundiata Cha-Jua,
Professor of African-American history, and director of the
African American Studies and Research Program (AASRP), at the
University of Illinois. We talk to him about the history of the
Black Power movement, and contemporary developments in political
action around race issues in the United States, in advance on a
major conference at the University of Illinois. This is a
pre-recorded program.
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| Mar
12, 2006 |
This week's guests are Jenny Toomey and
Michael Bracy, both of the Future of Music Coalition. The FMC's
primary goal is to educate musicians and the public at large
about some of the critical issues that are shaping the policy
debate in the music/technology space.
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| Mar 5, 2006 |
This week's show features a recording of a
talk given by Amy Goodman last May at the 'Can Freedom of the
Press Survive Media Consolidation?' conference at the University
of Illinois. As this is a pre-recorded show we will not be
taking calls from listeners.
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| Feb
26, 2006 |
Our guest this week is Noam Chomsky, the
renowned linguist and social critic.
The Institute Professor Emeritus of linguistics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Chomsky is
credited with the creation of the theory of generative grammar,
often considered the most significant contribution to the field
of theoretical linguistics of the 20th century. According to the
Arts and Humanities Citation Index, between 1980 and 1992
Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any living
scholar, and the eighth most cited source overall.
Chomsky is also a prominent and incisive political analyst and
commentator, most notably on U.S. foreign policy, and it is on
this aspect of his work that we will be concentrating on Sunday.
He is a prolific author, including Manufacturing Consent (with
Edward Herman), Hegemony or Survival, Necessary Illusions, and
many more (see the websites below for bibliographies).
http://www.chomsky.info
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html
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| Feb
19, 2006 |
Our guests this week are Pete Tridish of
the Prometheus Radio Project, and Erin McCarley. They have
recently returned from the World Social Forum in Venezuela and
will be discussing that event with us. Pete Tridish has helped
to build a number of low power radio stations, and provided
advice to hundreds. He has done radio trainings in Guatemala,
Colombia, Nepal, Tanzania, and other countries. He holds a BA in
Appropriate Technology from Antioch College.
http://prometheusradio.org
Erin McCarley, a masters student at the University of Texas in
photojournalism, worked for Free Speech television to cover the
World Social Forum.
http://erinmccarley.net/
http://www.freespeech.org
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| Feb
12, 2006 |
Our guest this week is John Nichols,
columnist for The Nation magazine, and frequent Media Matters
analyst.
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| Feb 5, 2006 |
Our guest this week is Mark Weisbrot,
co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He
received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan,
is co-author, with Dean Baker, of Social Security: The Phony
Crisis (University of Chicago Press, 2000), and has written
numerous research papers on economic policy. We will be talking
with Mr Weisbrot about recent political developments in Latin
America, and the World Social Forum, from which he has just
returned.
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| Jan
29, 2006 |
Our guest this week is Salim Muwakkil, a
senior editor of In These Times, where he has worked since 1983,
and an op-ed columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He is currently
a Crime and Communities Media Fellow of the Open Society
Institute, examining the impact of ex-inmates and gang leaders
in leadership positions in the black community.
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| Jan
22, 2006 |
Our guest this week is David Sirota. Sirota is
the co-chairperson of the Progressive Legislative Action Network
(PLAN) - a position he took after finishing a stint as a fellow
at the Center for American Progress. He is also a Senior Editor
at the In These Times magazine, and a writer for Working Assets,
and a twice-a-week guest on the Al Franken Show. His recently
completed book, "Hostile Takeover," will be released later this
Spring.
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| Jan
15, 2006 |
Our
guests this week are Ben Scott, policy director of Free Press,
and Mark Cooper, research director of the Consumer Federation of
America. We will be talking to them about issues around internet
access in the United States.
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Jan 8, 2006 |
Our
guest this week is Kembrew McLeod. A journalist, activist,
artist, and professor in the Department of Communication Studies
at the University of Iowa, McLeod is the author of Freedom of
Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of
Creativity (Doubleday/Random House, 2005) and Owning Culture:
Authorship, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Law (Peter
Lang, 2001) and has written music criticism for Rolling Stone, the
Village Voice, Spin, and Mojo. In 1998 McLeod trademarked the phrase Freedom of Expression as a way to comment on how intellectual property law is increasingly being used to fence off the culture and restrict the way we're allowed to express ideas. He is also the coproducer of a 2001 documentary
on the music industry, Money for Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop
Music, and a documentary on intellectual property law, Copyright
Criminals (2005). http://kembrew.com
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| Dec
18, 2005 |
Our
guest this week is Danny Schechter, the News Dissector. The
founder and executive editor of MediaChannel.org, Danny is a
television producer, independent filmmaker and media critic. He
is
the author of numerous books, including "The More You Watch, The
Less You Know" and "Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception: How the
Media Failed to Cover the War on Iraq." He is the co-founder and
executive producer of Globalvision, a New York-based television
and film production company. Previously, Schechter was a civil
rights activist, an assistant mayor of Detroit, a producer for
CNN and a producer for ABC’s 20/20 where he won two National
News Emmys. His writing has appeared in leading newspapers and
journals including The Nation, Newsday, Columbia Journalism
Review, Village Voice, and many others. Most recently, Schechter
is the author of "The Death of Media: And the Fight to Save
Democracy" and the forthcoming "When News Lies."
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| Dec
11, 2005 |
Our
guest on Media Matters this week is Sam Husseini, communications
director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His articles on
politics, foreign affairs, public policy, media, and pop culture
have been published in The Washington Post, Newsday, The Chicago
Tribune, The Nation, The Humanist, The Village Voice, FAIR's
magazine Extra! and numerous other outlets. Prior to joining
IPA, Husseini was media director for the American-Arab Anti-
Discrimination Committee.
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| Dec 4, 2005 |
Our
guest this week is Kristina Borjesson, journalist and author,
most recently, of Feet to the Fire. This is a pre-recorded
program.
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| Nov
27, 2005 |
Our
guest this week is Dan Schiller, professor at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talking about issues of global
media governance. This is a pre-recorded program.
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| Nov
20, 2005 |
Our
guest this week is Mark Crispin Miller, professor at New York
University, discussing his latest book "Fooled Again: How the
Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll Steal the Next One
Too (Unless We Stop Them)". His blog is
http://www.markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/
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| Nov
13, 2005 |
Our
guest this week is Robert Greenwald, producer of the film "WALLMART: The
High Cost of Low Prices."
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