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Amy Goodman is this week's guest on McChesney's Media Matters

by program streams at 11am Sunday Pacific Time
This week's guest on Media Matters is Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now and co-author of "Static: Government liars, media cheerleaders, and the people who fight back." This will be a live show.

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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Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests.

Sunday morning's audio stream will be accessible on the internet at 11 am Pacific Time, and the archived program should be available with along with past programs beginning tomorrow.

(Media Matters broadcasts Sundays from 1 to 2 pm Central; 11 am to 12 pm Pacific; 1900 to 2000 UTC.)

This week's guest on Media Matters is Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now and co-author (with her brother David Goodman) of "Static: Government liars, media cheerleaders, and the people who fight back." She is also co-author (also with her brother) of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love.

This will be a live show. Listeners may call with comments or questions. The toll-free telephone number is 1-800-222-9455.

More about Amy Goodman:

Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Goodman

Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/

Static: Government liars, media cheerleaders, and the people who fight back
http://www.hyperionbooks.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=1401302939

The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them
http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=1783

2006: A Deadly Year For Journalists
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/12/135052.php

LAST WEEK'S GUEST ON MEDIA MATTERS
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Last week's guests was Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, author of "Waves of Opposition: Labor and the Struggle for Democratic Radio."
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/24/18340301.php

UPCOMING GUESTS
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Upcoming guests should be Peter DiCola, Mark Lloyd and Jeff Chester.

More Indybay Citations of Media Matters Programs:
http://www.indybay.org/search/search_results.php?page_number=0&search=McChesney

TODAY'S PROGRAM AND ALL PAST SHOWS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE MEDIA MATTERS WEB SITE:
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/

(Look at the top of the Media Matters website and click on "Listen". A page will load with instructions for Realplay or Windows streaming. Open Source Streaming in Ogg Vorbis or other Free, non-proprietary audio codecs is not yet available-- as it is on Amy Goodman's Democracy Now!)
§Amy Goodman's Newest Book
by program streams at 11am Sunday Pacific Time
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