Rich Media, Poor Democracy

MCCHESNEY,R

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Author
MCCHESNEY,R
Publish Date
11/01/2000
Publisher Name
NEWPRSS
Subtitle
Communication Politics in Dubious Times
Number of Pages
464
Book Type
Paperback
ISBN-10
1565846346
ISBN-13
9781565846340
Edition
New Ed edition
SKU
9781565846340

Description

Winner of Harvard's Goldsmith Book Prize as well as the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, Rich Media, Poor Democracy destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information "choices" is a democratic one. Robert McChesney, whom Marc Crispin Miller calls "the greatest of our media historians," maintains that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are no more than a handful of enormous corporations, and that this concentrated corporate control is disastrous for any notion of participatory democracy.
In a book that Noam Chomsky hails as a "rich, penetrating study," McChesney combines historical sweep and unprecedented detail on current events as he chronicles the recent waves of media mergers and acquisitions, as well as 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 as a means of shielding corporate media power, and debunks the myth that the market compels media firms to "give the people what they want."