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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 Phil Donahue. Host of an  Emmy Award-winning TV talk show, Phil Donahue was one of the  originators of the daytime talk show format, featuring panel  discussions of controversial social issues, celebrity guests, and  audience participation. Recipient of the National Academy of  Television Arts and Sciences' Lifetime Achievement Award,Donahue  earned high ratings with viewers from his first broadcast in 1967  clear through its final segment in 1996. In 2002 he briefly returned  to television with a show on MSNBC. Phil Donahue will be speaking on  the U of I campus as part of the Media Consolidation Conference, May  10-11.

Further reading:
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0227-04.htm

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/24/1446244


UPCOMING GUESTS 

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In the following weeks we will feature Naomi Klein, John Nichols and  Sy Hersh.


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 Ben Scott, Policy Director for  Free Press. He is the author of several articles on American  journalism history and the politics of media regulation as well as co- editor of Our Unfree Press with Robert McChesney. 
http://www.freepress.net/


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