Inger Stole is McChesney's Guest on Media Matters

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Sun, Sep 3, 2006 10:39AM

Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions. This week's guest is Professor Inger Stole an author of Advertising on Trial: Consumer Activism and Corporate Public Relations in the 1930s.

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.”

THIS WEEK'S GUEST
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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."
Links:
Inger Stole's Blog http://www.prwatch.org/node/4965
Inger Stole: http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/icr/faculty/profiles/Inger_Stole.html
More: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0626advertising.html
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f05/stole.html

LAST WEEK'S GUEST
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Last week's guest was Josh Silver of Free Press

UPCOMING GUESTS
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Upcoming guests include John Stauber, Robert Greenwald, George
Monbiot and Rep. Bernie Sanders.

PAST SHOWS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE MEDIA MATTERS WEB SITE:

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/

For more information: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/

§Advertising on Trial

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Sun, Sep 3, 2006 10:39AM