The Media, the Left and Power TM: Why do you think it is important for progressives to understand the media and participate…
Bob McChesney
Robert McChesney is an American professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication. He specializes in the history and political economy of communication, and the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He co-founded Free Press, a national media reform organization.
On the eightieth anniversary of the 1929 Stock Market Crash that led to the Great Depression, the United States is once again…
On a Thursday in mid-May, the Senate did something that would have been unimaginable a decade ago. Led by Democrat Byron…
To read and view the U.S. news media over the past week, there is an episode of grand tyranny unfolding, one repugnant…
It should come as no surprise that the decision of the Federal Communications Commission to rewrite media ownership rules has stirred a…
As I write this, the Federal Communications Commission is poised to vote on June 2 to relax several longstanding media ownership rules.…
Robert W. McChesney This past Friday a dozen former "Nader’s Raiders" held a press conference and told Ralph Nader to drop out…
