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Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Web-only special content

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Best-selling author and foreign correspondent Chris Hedges and comics journalist Joe Sacco tell more stories of their collaboration on the book Days of Destuction, Days of Revolt, as well as their adventures reporting from trouble spots both at home and abroad. Original... Read more

Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Nation Institute Senior Fellow Chris Hedges (American Fascists, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning) and comics journalist Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde) have teamed up to produce Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a sweeping portrait of the American undercl... Read more

Matt Bors and Ted Rall

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
In this extended version of Words & Pictures, we welcome Matt Bors and Ted Rall back to the KBOO studios for a freewheeling and often hilarious conversation about the burgeoning field of comics journalism.  Two years ago, Matt and Ted had just returned from an unembedded... Read more

The Film Show

  The Film Show features news and interviews about the independent film scene in Portland Every 4th Thursday of the month, from 11:30am to 12:00pm (noon). The Film Show is KBOO's lens on the local and independent film scene, airing the Fourth Thursday of each month fr... Read more

Project Censored celebrates 35 years as media watchdog

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2011 at 12:00am
Theresa Mitchell of Presswatch and Per Fagereng of Fight the Empire co-host a special program with Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips of Project Censored to talk about the release of Censored 2012, which Celebrates 35 Years of Project Censored. In the last 35 years, the so-... Read more

Journalist Carole Simpson's memoir, "Newslady"

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Black Book Talk
Newslady is the memoir of Carole Simpson a trailblazing African American woman journalist. Simpson was the first woman the first African American woman national network television correspondent, the first African American woman to anchor a national network newscast and t... Read more

Michael Hudson looks at lender fraud, corruption

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2011 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Fight the Empire
Host Per Fagereng interviews Michael Hudson, Staff Writer at iWatch News about the legacy of corruption that still plagues Bank of America and a pattern of fraud at Countrywide Financial Corp., once the nation’s largest mortgage lender. Michael Hudson covers business a... Read more

Alternative Radio on 09/13/11

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2011 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Alternative Radio
Robert McChesney The Future of Journalism & Democracy (lecture) Remember that old song “Love and Marriage?” “Goes together like a horse and carriage. You can’t have one without the other.” It’s kind of that way with journalism and democracy. It’s long been axiomatic that ... Read more

Radiozine on 07/21/11

Airs at: Thu, 07/21/2011 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
Host Michelle Schroeder Fletcher interviews Sarah Sobieraj, author of Soundbitten: The Perils of Media-Centered Political Activism. Sobieraj explores the dynamics and costs of media obsession by activist groups.  She says the pervasive mediatization of politics has jeopar... Read more

Talk Radio on 06/24/11

Airs at: Fri, 06/24/2011 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
Host Per Fagereng interviews Professor Zaher Wahab and journalist Gareth Porter about Afghanistan, Obama's announcement about troops there, and the future of the country. Zaher Wahab is Professor of Education at Lewis and Clark College and a native of Afghanistan. Dr. W... Read more