[Peace] Fw: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update for October 19, 2008

[Jenifer Cartwright]

To those not already on Bob's list...
If you're gonna pledge soon anyway, tomorrow betw 1 and 3p would be a good time to do that. Rread to the bottom for great archive info.
 --Jenifer







--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org> wrote:

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

THIS WEEK'S SHOW
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Noam Chomsky.

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NEWS FROM OUR GUESTS
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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."

LAST WEEK'S SHOW
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Last week's guest was Robert Kuttner, editor of The American Prospect  
magazine.

http://www.prospect.org


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