[Peace] Fw: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update for August 17, 2008

Sun Aug 17 23:13:52 CDT 2008

Sorry to be so late forwarding this -- Dave Zirin is a favorite of mine, and I'm betting this was an interesting show. But since all Media Matters shows are archived, we can still catch it at some point.
 --Jenifer

--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart7 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart7 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update for August 17, 2008
To: "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 1:58 PM

--- On Sun, 8/17/08, Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org> wrote:

From: Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org>
Subject: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update for August 17, 2008
To: mediamatters at lists.prairienet.org
Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 12:32 PM

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

THIS WEEK'S GUEST
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This week our guest is Dave Zirin. Zirin, Press Action's 2005 and 2006  
Sportswriter of the Year, has been called "an icon in the world of  
progressive sports" and Robert Lipsyte says he is "the best young  
sportswriter in the United States." His column, Edge of Sports,  
appears on Sports Illustrated’s website, si.com. He is also the host  
of XM satellite’s weekly show, Edge of Sports Radio.

Zirin is, in addition, a columnist for SLAM Magazine, the Progressive,  
and the Philadelphia Weekly; a contributor to the Nation Magazine, and  
a regular op-ed writer for the Los Angeles Times.

Zirin’s next book, out this summer, is "A People's History of Sports

in the United States," part of Howard Zinn's People's History
series  
for the New Press. He is also the author of "Welcome to the  
Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports" (with a  
foreword by the immortal Chuck D.). His first book "What's My Name,  
Fool?" Sports and Resistance in the United States" (Haymarket Books) 

has entered its second printing and is available in stores and at  
haymarketbooks.org. He is also the author of "The Muhammad Ali  
Handbook", published for MQ Publications.

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UPCOMING GUESTS
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Upcoming guests include Gigi Durham.

LAST WEEK'S SHOW
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Last week's guest was Thomas Frank. Well-known author of What's the  
Matter with Kansas and Commodifying Dissent, Frank has recently been  
appointed a columnist at the Wall Street Journal. His new book, The  
Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, has just been released on  
Metropolitan Books.

http://www.wimnonline.org/

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