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Robert Waterman McChesney
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The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again Hardcover – January 5, 2010

by Robert W. McChesney (Author)
Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown.In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nations leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate the crisis. They propose a bold strategy for saving journalism and saving democracy, one that looks back to how the Founding Fathers ensured free press protection with the First Amendment and provided subsidies to the burgeoning print press of the young nation.
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    352 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Nation Books
  4. Publication date
    January 5, 2010
  5. Dimensions
    6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inches
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B003R4ZC5Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nation Books
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 5, 2010
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 0.01 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.13 x 1.13 x 9.25 inches

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Robert Waterman McChesney

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Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of several books on the media, including the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy, and a co-editor (with Ben Scott) of Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism (both available from The New Press). He lives in Urbana, Illinois.