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Barbara Ehrenreich is the guest this week on McChesney's Media Matters
This week's guest on Media Matters is expected to be Barbara Ehrenreich, author most recently of Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.
The weekly radio program Media Matters
features host Bob
McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests.
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.”
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.”
Every Sunday, a broadcast audio stream of Media Matters is accessible on the internet at 11 am Pacific Time.
An archived recording of the program is normally downloadable on Monday.
When live, listeners may call the program with comments or questions.
The toll-free telephone number to participate is 1-800-222-9455.
THIS WEEK'S GUEST:
From Media Matters:
Barbara Ehrenreich, author most
recently of Dancing in the Streets: A
history of collective joy (Metropolitan, 2007). Ehrenreich is perhaps
best known as the author of Nickled and Dimed (Metropolitan,
2001).
She followed the success of that book with Bait and Switch: The
(Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream (Metropolitan, 2006), based on
her experiences as an undercover white-collar job seeker.
Dancing in the Streets is described by Ehrenreich herself as "a sweeping book about festivities and ecstatic rituals: their roots in human evolution and the history of their repression by elites from ancient times to the present."
Dancing in the Streets is described by Ehrenreich herself as "a sweeping book about festivities and ecstatic rituals: their roots in human evolution and the history of their repression by elites from ancient times to the present."
More Info:
Barbara Ehrenreich's Website
Barbara Ehrenreich's Blog
Dancing in the Streets
Wikipedia Biography
United Professionals
CSPAN Interview March 04, 2007
Stories archived at Alternet
LAST WEEK'S GUEST ON MEDIA MATTERS:
Last week's guest was policy director of Free Press, Ben Scott who talked about major media battles going on in Washington, D.C. including the one over network neutrality.
From Free Press:
Policy Director Ben Scott heads up our
policy team in Washington, which is dedicated to monitoring
and analyzing media policymaking to increase public awareness and
participation. Before joining Free Press, he worked as a legislative
fellow handling telecommunications policy for Rep. Bernie Sanders
(I-Vt.) in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is also in the final
stages of his doctoral degree in communications from the University of
Illinois. He is the author of several scholarly articles on American
journalism history and the politics of media regulation, as well as
co-editor of Our Unfree Press and The Future of Media.
SUNDAY MORNING'S STREAMING PROGRAM AND ALL PAST SHOWS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE MEDIA MATTERS WEB SITE:
For more information:
http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/
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