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Title: The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney ISBN: 1-58367-105-6 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Summary: Next time you hear 'them' screaming about 'Liberal Media'...
Comment: The corporate owners of the media, their executives and their business partners (commercial and political advertisers) are in collusion to make sure that the deck is stacked against regular citizens who are raised to believe in fairness and in favor of those in collusion. Their tools include the Federal Communications Commission and their agenda is the perpetuation of commerce, not an informed citizenry.
This book explains the early traditions of American media, how the media has been coopted and corrupted by the Right and by powerful commercial interests, and how this situation has become self-perpetuating and institutionalized by the FCC.
Don't be persuaded that this book is a left wing screed. Although this issue is a major reason why we have a Bush administration, it is not a personal indictment. Rather, it is an indictment of the system that is, and a case for why it should be (and once was) very different.
Robert McChesney tries hard to be an honest broker of information about the Media and he largely succeeds. In the lengthy (chapter-length) appendix, he is meticulous with his sources and invites further reading on all sides of the issue. While you're reading McChesney, read John Nichols (and particularly the book they wrote together, called "Our Media, Not Theirs").
The next time you hear people ranting about the liberal media, ask them to question who influenced them to think that way and point them to this book. Consider: why is it that the more citizens question the consolidation and bias of the media, the more the issue is fogged up by figures in the media? The answers are simple; McChesney helps the reader understand.
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Title: The New Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian ISBN: 0807061875 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0805074007 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesney ISBN: 1565846346 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism by Robert W. McChesney, Ben Scott ISBN: 1565848551 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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