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Robert McChesney On Media Consolidation |
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by ML
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14 Jan 2002
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Professor Robert W. McChesney of the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois was interviewed on WILL AM 580 on the growing consolidation of mass media ownership and the threat this poses to democratic discourse in our country. |
Professor Robert W. McChesney of the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois was interviewed on WILL AM 580 on the growing consolidation of mass media ownership and the threat this poses to democratic discourse in our country. He was the guest of AM 580's David Inge on Friday, Jan. 11, 2002 on the "Focus 580" call-in show at 10AM.
Click on the link below to listen to the show (requires RealPlayer): http://www.will.uiuc.edu/ramfiles/Focus_580/focus020111a.ram
Prof. McChesney is the author of a number of critical works, including "Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times," on the media, who controls it, and the implications for democracy. His website is: http://www.robertmcchesney.com/
Along with John Nichols, Prof. McChesney authored the recent article in The Nation on the media reform movement which identified Independent Media Centers as an important part of the emerging new media movement in opposition to corporate control of the news. You can read this article here: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020107&s=mcchesney |
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http://www.will.uiuc.edu/ramfiles/Focus_580/focus020111a.ram
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