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From: "Victor W. Pickard" <vpickard at uiuc.edu>
Sent: May 13, 2004 8:15 AM
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Subject: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update 

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 activist, 
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, and Reality Bites. In the months before 
the Iraq war, Garofalo was an outspoken advocate for 
diplomacy and peace on talk shows like Crossfire, Inside 
Politics, and Good Morning America.  Last year Garofalo was 
the MC for the "Tell us the Truth Tour." Now Garofalo co-
hosts a three hour live show called "The Majority Report" on 
the new liberal radio network, Air America. 

http://www.airamericaradio.com/
http://www.majorityreportradio.com/

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


UPCOMING GUESTS 

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In the following weeks we will feature Arianna Huffington and 
David Barsamian. 

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 Jeff Cohen. Jeff Cohen 
founded Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) in 1986. 
<http://www.fair.org/> In recent years, Cohen has been a 
regular panelist on Fox News Channel's News Watch, a senior 
producer on MSNBC's "Donahue," and the communications 
director for the Kucinich campaign. For four years, he co-
wrote the weekly, nationally syndicated "Media Beat" column 
with Norman Solomon. 


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