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The first paperback edition of a myth-breaking book on media, from one of today’s most reputable and insightful media historian/critics. Winner of Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize, Rich Media, Poor Democracy challenges the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information “choices” is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls “the greatest of our media historians,” argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age… More >>
Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
It is a waste of time and money
Rating: 1 / 5
This book contains a gross error of an incident about me that was widely, and accurately, covered by other media, most notably the Washington Post and Columbia Journalism Review. (See “Blasting the Boss in Boston”, Stephen J. Simurda, Columbia Journalism Review, September 2000.) I contacted McChesney when I discovered it; he apologized and said he would correct it in any future editions of this book. There have, however, been no future editions and it would be good of him to uphold the journalistic responsibility about which he so passionately preaches by providing an insert to any copies sold. I have no knowledge that he has done so. Readers should therefore be forewarned of the scholarly deficiency of this work.
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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.
Rating: 5 / 5
Rich Media, Poor Democracy is the best, period. For activists, scholars and media critics concerned with how our economic system runs our political system, Robert McChesney combines both passion and intellect. Except for George Orwell, what better source to turn to for the next uncontested merger after AOL, Time Warner?
Lynn A. Curtis President Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation Washington, DC
Rating: 5 / 5
Rich Media, Poor Democracy is the best, period. For activists, scholars and media critics concerned with how our economic system runs our political system, Robert McChesney combines both passion and intellect. Except for George Orwell, what better source to turn to for the next uncontested merger after AOL, Time Warner?
Lynn A. Curtis> President> Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation> Washington, DC>
Rating: 5 / 5