Thomas Frank (... Kansas) streams LIVE on Media Matters Sun 2pm EST

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from Bob McChesney's weekly email:


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 Thomas Frank. Founding
editor of The Baffler <http://www.thebaffler.com/>, Frank
received a PhD in 1994 in American history at the University
of Chicago. His dissertation later became "The Conquest of
Cool." Frank is a contributor to Harper’s, The Nation, and
The New York Times op-ed page, and has co-edited two
anthologies of essays, "The Baffler: Commodify Your Dissent"
and "Boob Jubilee." Thomas Frank is also the author of "One
Market Under God" and the recent "What’s the Matter with
Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America?"


UPCOMING GUESTS

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Next week our guest will be Paul Krugman.


If you have a suggestion for a guest you'd like to see on
the show,let us know: email producer Victor Pickard at
[email protected]

If you have a suggestion for a guest you'd like to see on
the show,let us know: email producer Victor Pickard at
[email protected]


LAST WEEK'S GUEST

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Last week's guest on Media Matters was Stephen Hartnett,
Associate Professor of Speech Communication at the University
of Illinois. He is writing a book with Laura Stengrim
titled "Globalization & Empire: Free Markets, The U.S.
Invasion of Iraq, and The Twilight of Democracy."

Relevant links:
http://cepr.org/
http://www.warprofiteers.com/
http://www.hrw.org/


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