Bob McChesney - Media Matters - Interviews Vol 2

Bob McChesney - Media Matters - Audio Interviews Vol. 2

"Media Matters" is an hour-long listener call-in radio program hosted by Bob McChesney that often but not always focuses on media policy issues.  In this package, I've included shows from 2004-2007 in which Bob interviews well-known guests such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Gore Vidal, John Nichols, John Pilger, Michael Albert, Molly Ivins, Naomi Klein, Norman Solomon, Paul Krugman, Sy Hersh, and Thomas Frank.  For details visit http://www.will.uiuc.edu/AM/mediamatters/default.htm

An earlier upload (call it "Media Matters Vol. 1") featured interviews with Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Alexander Cockburn, Norman Finkelstein, Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman, Charles Lewis, David Sirota, and Norman Solomon.

Files:

BarbaraEhrenreichMediaMatters070603.mp3
DonohueKleinHershMediaMatters050626.mp3
GoreVidalMediaMatters050529.mp3
JohnNicholsMediaMatters060212.mp3
JohnNicholsMediaMatters061008.mp3
JohnPilgerMediaMatters070610.mp3
MichaelAlbertMediaMatters070408.mp3
MollyIvinsMediaMatters040229.mp3
NaomiKleinMediaMatters050424.mp3
NormanSolomonMediaMatters070715.mp3
PaulKrugmanMediaMatters041212.mp3
SeymourHershMediaMatters050508.mp3
ThomasFrankMediaMatters041205.mp3

Robert "Bob" W. McChesney is a professor of media studies and one of the foremost critics of American mass media. His work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media plays in democratic and capitalist societies. Since 2002, McChesney has been the host of Media Matters, a call-in talk radio program broadcast on WILL-AM and over the internet ( http://www.will.uiuc.edu/AM/mediamatters/default.htm ).

Barbara Ehrenreich is a prominent liberal American writer, columnist, feminist, socialist and political activist.

Gore Vidal is an American author of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays. The scion of a prominent political family, Gore is an outspoken critic of the American political establishment and a noted wit and social critic.

John Nichols, Washington correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the author of "Jews for Buchanan: Did You Hear the One About the Theft of the American Presidency." With Robert McChesney, he co-authored "Our Media Not Theirs: the Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media."

John Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker from Sydney, primarily based in London, England. Pilger's career in journalism began in 1958, and he has developed his reputation through both his reporting and the various books and documentary films that he has written or produced. He is best known in Britain for his investigative documentaries, particularly those on Cambodia and East Timor. He has acted as a war correspondent during conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, India, Bangladesh and Biafra. In all of his work, Pilger has been a prominent and fervent critic of Western foreign policy. He is particularly opposed to many aspects of American foreign policy, which he regards as being driven by a largely imperialist agenda.

Michael Albert is a longtime activist, speaker, and writer, is co-editor of ZNet, and co-editor and co-founder of Z Magazine. He also co-founded South End Press and has written numerous books and articles. He developed along with Robin Hahnel the economic vision called participatory economics, or parecon for short. Albert identifies himself as a market abolitionist and favors democratic participatory planning as an alternative.

Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (died 2007) was a liberal American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas.

Naomi Klein is a Canadian journalist, author and activist well known for her political analyses of corporate globalization. In 2000, Klein published the book "No Logo", which for many became a manifesto of the anti-globalization movement. This movement had shut down the WTO Meeting of 1999 one month before the release of "No Logo." The book lambasts brand-oriented consumer culture by describing the operations of large corporations. These corporations are also often guilty of exploiting workers in the world's poorest countries in pursuit of ever-greater profits, she writes.

Norman Solomon is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992.

Paul Krugman is an American economist. Krugman, a liberal, 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. Krugman is an outspoken critic of the George W. Bush administration and its foreign and domestic policy. Unlike many economic pundits, he is also regarded as an important scholarly contributor by his peers. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books—some academic, and some written for the layperson.

Seymour (Sy) Hersh is an American Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author based in Washington, DC. He is a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine on military and security matters.

Thomas Frank is an American author who writes about what he calls "cultural politics". He is the founder and editor of The Baffler and the author of several books, most recently "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Other writings include essays for Harper's Magazine, Le Monde diplomatique, and the Financial Times.