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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times Hardcover - 1999
by Robert W. McChesney
McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant anti-democratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide.
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Robert McChesney argues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times. Challenging the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is ipso facto a democratic one, McChesney argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. This concentrated corporate control, McChesney maintains, is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy.
Combining unprecedented detail on current events with historical sweep, McChesney chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the Internet, digital television, and public broadcasting. He also addresses the gradual and ominous adaptation of the First Amendment ("freedom of the press") as a means of shielding corporate media power and the wealthy.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy exposes several myths about the media -- in particular, that the market compels media firms to "give the people what they want" -- that limit the ability of citizens to grasp the real nature and logic of the media system. If we value our democracy, McChesney warns, we must organize politically to restructure the media in order to affirm their connection to democracy.
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- Title Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
- Author Robert W. McChesney
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Second Edition
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois
- Date 1999-08
- Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780252024481 / 0252024486
- Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.59 x 5.99 x 1.19 in (24.36 x 15.21 x 3.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Democracy - United States, Mass media - Political aspects - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-58055
- Dewey Decimal Code 302.230
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Citations
- Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 120
- Ingram Advance, 10/01/1999, Page 192
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2000, Page 17
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