Praise for Robert W. McChesney
"Robert McChesney's work has been of extraordinary importance. .
. . It should be read with care and concern by people who care
about freedom and basic rights."
--Noam Chomsky
"Robert McChesney is one of the nation's most important analysts
of the media."
--Howard Zinn
The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a
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 points a way forward for the growing media reform
movement.
Moving consistently from critique to action, the book explores
the political economy of the media, illuminating its major
flashpoints and controversies by locating them in the political
economy of U.S. capitalism. It deals with issues such as the
declining quality of journalism, the question of bias, the weakness
of the public broadcasting sector, and the limits and possibilities
of antitrust legislation in regulating the media. It points out the
ways in which the existing media system has become a threat to
democracy, and shows how it could be made to serve the interests of
the majority.
McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" was hailed as a
pioneering analysis of the way in which media had come to serve the
interests of corporate profit rather than public enlightenment and
debate. Bill Moyers commented, "If Thomas Paine were around, he
would have written this book." The Problem of the Media is certain
to be a landmark in media studies, a vital resource for media
activism, and essential reading for concerned scholars and citizens
everywhere.
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