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Robert W. McChesney

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

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advertising and journalism
American media
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class privilege and democracy
communication policy
communication policy in the United States
control of broadcasting
corporate globalization
corporate media system
corruption
crisis
critique
decline of journalism
democratic movements
educators and control of broadcasting
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first amendment issues
for profit media
global media
history of control of broadcasting
history of public broadcasting
Internet
Internet and democracy
media and democracy
media concentration
media conglomerates
media control
media in the twenty-first century
media in the United States
media independence
media ownership
media politics
media reform
media reform movements
media studies
myth of the free market
postcapitalist democracy
public broadcasting
United States

Product details

  • ISBN 9780252024481
  • Weight: 739g
  • Dimensions: 146 x 235mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Aug 1999
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description
Long seen as a bedrock of democracy and freedom, the media have in fact become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and around the world. The corporate media explosion has set off a corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes a perilous present—and threatens our future.

Robert McChesney's acclaimed analysis of corporate media and its undermining of democracy challenges the myths and assumptions that, at bedrock, serve corporate elites and their political allies. McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the Internet, digital television, and public broadcasting and argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. As McChesney shows, powerful myths limit our ability to grasp the real nature and logic of the media system. To guarantee our freedoms, citizens must organize politically to restructure the media in ways that secure the independence of a free press and reaffirm its connection to democracy.
About Robert W. McChesney
Robert McChesney, a research associate professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Information and Library Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the author of Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.A. Broadcasting, 1928-35 and other books on media.