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Title: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert Waterman McChesney ISBN: 1-56584-634-6 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.73 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Democracy and the Corporate Media: A Brilliant Critique
Comment: "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" is the most important recent book for anyone concerned with the real world of democracy under corporate capitalism in the year 2000. In a detailed, substantive, highly-readable study, McChesney explores how corporate control of the mass media shapes and constrains news and culture, sharply limits real freedom of the press, and undermines popular self-government as a result. McChesney shows how growing corporate media concentration threatens the open system of communication and culture that is vital to democracy - rule by the majority. I know of no other book that cuts through the neo- liberal market idolatry of our times. Yet McChesney offers hope: imaginative yet concrete ways in which citizens might contest the power of the corporate media and reclaim the best of our democratic heritage. A superb book, highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Corporate Capitalism, Mass Media, and Democracy
Comment: This may be the most important book of the year for anyone concerned with the real world of democracy as we enter 2000. In a detailed, substantive but highly-readable study, McChesney explores how corporate control of the mass media shapes and constrains news and culture, sharply limits real freedom of the press, and hence undermines popular self-government. McChesney shows how growing corporate media concentration threatens the open system of communication and culture that is vital to democracy or rule by the majority. I know of no other book that cuts through the neo-liberal, market-idolatry of our time. Yet the author provides hope: imaginative, yet concrete ways in which citizens might contest the power of the corporate media and reclaim the best of our democratic heritage. A superb book, highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: A timely and welcome contribution to Journalism Studies
Comment: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics In Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesney (Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) informative surveys and comments upon the history and politics of the American media up through the dawn of the twenty-first century. From the repercussions of globalization and the Internet; to a recounting of battles for control of U.S. broadcasting to the past, present, and questionable future of public broadcasting, Rich Media, Poor Democracy is a timely and welcome contribution to Journalism Studies reading lists and Political Science collections.
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Title: Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series) by Robert Waterman McChesney ISBN: 1888363479 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media by John Nichols, Robert Waterman McChesney, Barbara Ehrenreich ISBN: 1583225498 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Media Monopoly 6th Edition by Ben H. Bagdikian ISBN: 0807061794 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583225366 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Interplay of Influence: News, Advertising, Politics, and the Mass Media by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ISBN: 0534533647 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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