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Thu 6/29 WMFO: Bob McChesney: Rich Media, Poor Democracy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Voelker)
Mon Jun 26 17:42:35 2000
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 17:39:47 -0400
From: Martin Voelker <mvoelker@emerald.tufts.edu>
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http://www.wmfo.org (listen live on the web - world wide!)
No-U-Turn Radio, WMFO 91.5 FM, Medford presents:
Thursday 6/29 8-9am (morning!)
Media professor ROBERT McCHESNEY on RICH MEDIA - POOR DEMOCRACY
McChesney spoke at the University of Maine's Conference on Public
Broadcasting and the Public Interest on June 17 2000.
As Molly Ivins describes his recent book: Rich Media, Poor Democracy :
Communication Politics in Dubious Times (The History of Communication) "
McChesney "takes the beast directly by the throat. Rather than moaning
about urging journalists to be more responsible or newspapers to try 'civic
journalism,' McChesney has gone right to the heart of the matter. At the
end of World War II, 80 percent of American newspapers were independently
owned....in 1982, 50 corporations owned almost all of the major media
outlets in the United States. That included 1,787 daily newspapers, 11,000
magazines, 9,000 radio stations, 1,000 television stations, 2,500 book
publishers and seven major movie studios....in 1987 that was down to 29
corporations. And now there are nine. They own it all. (...)
McChesney advances a program for reform that liberals and conservatives can
support. Conservatives who hate all the cheesy, sleazy sex and violence,
and liberals who loathe teledrek and yearn for a sense of community, can
make common cause in what could easily become the best use of people power
in more than a generation."
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Martin Voelker, news director, producer, WMFO Medford, 91.5 FM
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