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Dave Zirin is the guest this week on McChesney's Media Matters
This week the guest is expected to be Dave Zirin, author most recently of The Muhammad Ali Handbook and Welcome to the Terrordom: the pain, politics, and promise of sports.
Zirin is the author of the widely acclaimed book What's My Name, Fool? and writer of the weekly column "Edge of Sports." He writes a regular column to The Nation and Slate magazine and has appearded as a sports commentator on ESPN TV and radio, CNBC, WMBC, Democracy Now, Air America, Radio Nation and Pacifica.
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:
Finally! "Radical" sportswriter Dave Zirin is the guest.
More Info:
Wikipedia Biography
Edge of Sports
Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports
What's My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
Muhammad Ali Handbook
LAST WEEK'S GUEST ON MEDIA MATTERS:
Connie Schultz who is a columnist for the Plain Dealer of Cleveland, Ohio. She is married to Ohio Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown.
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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