John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, and others on Bob McChesney's "Media Matters" now -- 1-3pm ET

http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/show/october-19-2008/

Sunday, October 19, 2008

John Nichols, Noam Chomsky, and others join us for a 2-hour Pledge Drive Special from noon to 2 pm Central

This week's show is a Pledge Drive special, and will run from 12-2pm Central Time (1-3pm EDT / 10am-midday PDT). We will be joined by regular guest John Nichols, as well as special guests such as Prof. Noam Chomsky.

Listeners can support our home station, WILL, by going to this website: http://willpledge.org. Donors will have an opportunity to note their support for Media Matters as part of the online process. You can also call to pledge at (217) 244-9455.

NEWS FROM OUR GUESTS

Naomi Klein, former Media Matters guest and author of The Shock Doctrine, will be speaking October 29 at 7:30pm at the Smith Memorial Hall, 800 S Matthews Ave, Urbana.

Former Media Matters guest Paul Krugman was the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences. You can listen to Prof. Krugman on Media Matters last December: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/mediamatters071216.mp3
or in 2004: http://www.will.uiuc.edu/media/mediamatters041212.mp3

This brings to two the number of Nobel laureates who have been guests on Media Matters in the past year - Prof. Joseph Stiglitz, a previous winner in economics, was a guest in April of this year.

Meanwhile, regular Media Matters guest Amy Goodman is one of this year's winners of the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes referred to as the Alternative Nobel Prize, and awarded to those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today."

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