55 uninterrupted minutes of Barbara Ehrenreich's visit w/Bob McChesney today - listen link

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http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Bright-Sided

Barbara Ehrenreich, author of NYT's bestseller Nickel and Dimed and Bob talk about her new book, Bright-Sided, How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America. Barbara has written 16 other books, including Bait and Switch. She contributes to Harper's and The Nation, and has been a columnist with New York Times and Time magazine.

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Media Matters with Bob McChesney
Sundays at 1 pm Central on AM580

Media Matters features host Bob McChesney in conversation with a variety of guests. Listeners may call with comments or questions.

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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1. I was stunned the other day when a caller mentioned her name to Randi Rhodes

and Randi didn't know who she was.

Thanks for the link!

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