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Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy
Oxford University Press 1995; US$ 50.00This study examines a critical point in US broadcasting, when a strong opposition emerged to challenge network-dominated, advertising-supported media such as radio. more...
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 9.95"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."?Susan J. Douglas, author of Growing Up Female with the Mass Media more...
Digital Disconnect
New Press, The 2013; US$ 27.95Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet?s effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney?s award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy... more...
The Problem of the Media
Monthly Review Press 2004; US$ 60.00The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-knowna decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of viewpoint and suppression of genuine debate. McChesney's new book, The Problem of the Media , gets to the roots of this crisis, explains it, and... more...
The Death and Life of American Journalism
Nation Books 2011; US$ 16.99The ?Paul Revere and Tom Paine? (according to Bill Moyers) of media reform propose a bold and controversial response to the current crisis of journalism more...
Microradio & Democracy
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 5.95Microradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and larger... more...
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights
New Press, The 2011; US$ 19.95The sudden meltdown of the news media has sparked one of the liveliest debates in recent memory, with an outpouring of opinion and analysis crackling across journals, the blogosphere, and academic publications. Yet, until now, we have lacked a comprehensive and accessible introduction to this new and shifting terrain. In Will the Last Reporter Please... more...
Dollarocracy
Nation Books 2013; US$ 26.99In the wake of the Citizen?s United decision, elections will be controlled by moneyed interests as never before. more...
The Future of Media
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 19.95Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie Sanders, and Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley, among many others. With the American political landscape dominated by the influence of big business, the timing of The Future of Media could hardly be more... more...
The Oh Really? Factor
Seven Stories Press 2011; US$ 8.95Since emerging from tabloid-television infamy as the former host of Inside Edition, Bill O?Reilly has taken his brand of provocative rhetoric to the next level: from shock-TV to the No Spin Zone. Despite his outspoken support for Bush?s tax cuts and a war with Iraq, and his attacks on everything from National Public Radio to "welfare mothers," O?Reilly... more...









