Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney

Book Overview

"In this passionate and strikingly lucid essay, Robert McChesney makes clear why all of us should be alarmed about the effects of media mergers on the future of American democracy. This is a must reading for anyone who wants to get a quick understanding of this troubling trend."--Susan J. Douglas, author of Growing Up Female with the Mass Media

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888363479
• ISBN13: 9781888363470
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.3" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

best intro to media reform

This is the best short introduction to the need for media reform in the United States that I have seen. For someone completely new to the topic, it will be shocking, surprising, and perhaps in places a little too brisk, but all-in-all the best place to start. For someone who has looked at the topic before, it will provide additional insights and a remarkable summary of the major issues.

A great book, if you can handle the truth.

While most media criticism looks at the personal politics of reporters and editors or other such nonsense, McChesney's terrific little book examines the news industry as an industry. Out of this analysis comes eye-opening revelations about why we get such a narrow perspective in the mainstream news, and why there is so little news reporting available that could serve to upset the corporate status quo. McChesney is not a conspiracy theorist. This book is loaded with solid data and analysis that shows how our news providers are owned and organized and allowed to operate. And it is written in plain, clear language that anyone can understand. The book might be hard to accept for people who think they already have it all figured out, but for everyone else it goes a long way toward explaining how our news and politics can remain so static when virtually everyone is unhappy with what they are getting from both. Get it, read it, and lend it out to everyone you know.

Short, Simple, Clear: Demcoracy is At Stake

If you want a handy resource on media mergers and corporate consolidation - This is the book for you.

One of the best books on the state of democracy in America

This book is really amazing. So many events happen within our country which are either not covered or are trivialized to such an extent that people won't protest. Mr McChesney cuts through all of the media propaganda to provide a clear and coherent picture of our media system as it now stands. Buy this book now. END

Read this book.

If you get a little irritated and even downright angry about the powerful agenda setters and the decline of publicly defined power, you might want to consider "the five D's of Action:" Define corporate media, Dissect it, Denounce it, Disrupt it, and finally Dismantle it. This book is your manual for action. Nancy E. Snow, Peace Review