Robert McChesseny: Media Theorist
McChessney's Work on the Exposing the U.S. Media Flaws
By Donna Marie Berardi, published May 05, 2006
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Robert McChesney is a research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. McChesney has written several book including: Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the control of U.S. Broadcasting, Corporate Media and the Threat to the Democracy, with Edward Herman The Global Media: The new Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism, and with John Nicholas It’s the Media, Stupid, Our Media Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media. His most recent book Rich Media Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times has won multiple awards.
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Takeaways
- The American Media system is not as fair and balanced as many of us thought
- McChessney is a proponent of media change
- Journalism does not examine its own corporate flaws
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