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    Explore "mcchesney" with insightful episodes like "Afternoon Drive: Matt McChesney on Colorado HS recruits", "MATT MCCHESNEY TALKS NFL CHAMPIONSHIP WEEKEND ON KBPI", "Matt McChesney Joins Benny on KBPI", "Afternoon Drive: Matt McChesney joins the program to break down the developing situation at CSU and in CFB as a whole" and "Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody" from podcasts like ""Best of Mile High Sports", "BASH that BOOK", "BASH that BOOK", "Best of Mile High Sports" and "Tell Somebody"" and more!

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    Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody

    Robert McChesney on the Phone for the Last Pledge Drive with Tell Somebody

    Robert McChesney returned to the show for the last pledge drive edition of Tell Somebodyon February 4, 2016. We started the show talking about how over two years ago Tell Somebody covered the Michigan emergency manager law, ignored in the corporate media, which led to the Flint water crisis. Then we talked about the new book coauthored by McChesney with John Nichols- People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy

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    McChesney – Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century

    McChesney – Blowing the Roof Off the 21st Century

    Robert McChesney, Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois, has a new book out, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-first Century – Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy.

    McChesney talks about the book on the January 29, 2015 edition of Tell Somebody.

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    John Nichols - Dollarocracy

    John Nichols - Dollarocracy

    On the May 15, 2014 edition of Tell Somebody, guest John Nichols talked about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex  is Destroying America, one week ahead of an appearance in Kansas City to talk about the book.   

     Nichols, Washington correspondent for the Nation Magazine, co-founder of the media reform organization Free Press, and co-author with Robert McChesney of “Dollarocracy,” is coming to speak at the downtown central Library in Kansas City, MO next Thursday May 22. 

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    Robert McChesney on Dollarocracy

    Robert McChesney on Dollarocracy

    On the August 8, 2013, edition of Tell Somebody,  Professor Robert McChesney talks about Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America, his new book with co-author John Nichols.

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    #NCMR13 Pt 2 - Bob McChesney Craig Aaron Proj. Censored

    #NCMR13 Pt 2 - Bob McChesney Craig Aaron Proj. Censored

    The April 16, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody was the second of two parts on the Free Press National Conference for Media Reform in Denver, Colorado.  The show features excerpts from Free Press President/CEO Craig Aaron's opening and closing remarks at the conference, the remaining portions of an interview with Free Press co-founder Professor Bob McChesney, criticism from Project Censored's current and former directors Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips, and a response from Craig Aaron.


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    Marjorie Cohn, Michael Copps, Bob McChesney, & Craig Aaron at NCMR13

    Marjorie Cohn, Michael Copps, Bob McChesney, & Craig Aaron at NCMR13

    The April 9, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody is the first of  two shows covering the 2013 National Conference for Media Reform in Denver , Colorado.

    We hear from conference attendee Janet Wilson, law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild Marjorie Cohn, former FCC commissioner Michael Copps, journalism professor and Free Press co-founder Bob McChesney, and Free Press president & CEO Craig Aaron.

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    Bob McChesney on the Need to Support Independent Media

    Bob McChesney on the Need to Support Independent Media

    Professor Robert McChesney  returned to Tell Somebody for the February 12, 2013 edition to talk about the vital importance of independent media and the urgent need to support it.

    Robert McChesney is co-founder and former president of Free Press, the national non-partisan media reform group that organized opposition to the Federal Communication Commission's decision to relax media ownership rules in 2003. He is the author of many books, and is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana..

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    Robert McChesney on why you need to support KKFI

    Robert McChesney on why you need to support KKFI

    On the February 7, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody, we got Professor Robert McChesney on the phone to help out with the KKFI Winter Pledge Drive.  Along the way he talked about how the US has slipped badly in freedom of the press rankings compared to other countries, threats to the internet, and how corporate dreams of  lifting even more  media cross-ownership restrictions refuse to die.

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    Robert McChesney on the Death & Life of American Journalism

    Robert McChesney on the Death & Life of American Journalism

    The October 11, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody starts out with a couple of voices from Occupied Kansas City and a short segment on the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers before spending most of the hour with Robert McChesney, co-author with John Nichols of The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again on a pledge drive show.

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    John Nichols - Betting on our Better Angels

    John Nichols - Betting on our Better Angels

    John Nichols and Robert McChesney's new book, The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again has been much in the news lately.  Recently I spoke to McChesney about it on the air and for this edition of Tell Somebody, I decided to give another listen to what John Nichols had to say kicking off a week of media reform events Alice Kitchen and I organzied with help from  Friends of Community Media and other groups in Kansas City with help from www.freepress.net and Common Cause in October, 2008.

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    Robert McChesney on Saving Journalism

    Robert McChesney on Saving Journalism

    University of Illinois Professor Robert McChesney returns to Tell Somebody to talk about The Death and Life of American Journalism - The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again , the new book he co-authored with John Nichols of The Nation magazine.

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