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Welcome to another edition of the WILL-AM Media Matters email update!   


THIS WEEK'S GUEST 

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This week's guest on Media Matters is actress and comedian, Janeane Garofalo. Garofalo has acted in numerous movies, including The Laramie Project, Dogma, Steal This Movie (the Abbie Hoffman story), Wet Hot American Summer, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Reality Bites, to name a few. In the months before the Iraq war, Garofalo was an outspoken advocate for diplomacy and peace on talk shows like Crossfire, Inside Politics, Good Morning America, Fox News Sunday, MSNBC, and CNN.  More recently, Garofalo was the MC for the "Tell us the Truth Tour." Beginning March 31, Garofalo will co-host a three hour live show with the new liberal radio network, Air America.

For Janeane Garofalo's May 2003 interview with The Progressive magazine, check out the following link: http://www.progressive.org/may03/intv0503.html


UPCOMING GUESTS 

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In the following weeks we will feature Richard Maxwell, Laura Flanders, and Susan Douglas. 

If you have a suggestion for a guest you'd like to see on the show,let us know: email producer Victor Pickard at vpickard at uiuc.edu 

   
LAST WEEK'S GUEST 

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Last week's guest on Media Matters was Charles Lewis. Charles Lewis is the founder and executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization in Washington that does investigative reporting and research on public policy issues. http://www.publicintegrity.org/ 
While on the show, Lewis discussed his new book, "The Buying of the President." 


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