The Future of Media: Resistance and Reform in the 21st Century

Co-edited by acclaimed media scholar Robert W. McChesney, the book features chapters by Bill Moyers, FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, Rep. Bernie.
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A Life From Beginning to End. Do you want to learn about Che Guevara? From Booklist The continued consolidation of media outlets, increasing governmental secrecy under the guise of national security, and the unprecedented connection between the government and a quasi-official ideological press have formed the perfect storm of threats to American press freedom, according to the contributors of this engrossing collection.

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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The authors deconstruct myths of the American journalism and myths of the Internet. The author start showing that voting in the US is determined significantly by class. Mass media participate in the depoliticizing and demoralization of the working class in the US.

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The mass media lied on the war in Iraq and the American people approved a war under false pretences. There are several factors that led to this situation. There is government censorship lack of disclosure of news by the government. There is a tendency of media giants to exalt commercial value. Despite the myths of the Internet, the Web has not led to the expected freedom.

It is true that the Internet allows choosing from millions of sites, but most users only go to few sites. They rely on links and search engines. Search engines have a political bias and one can perform content analysis of search engines like of newspapers. There must be a fight for a non-commercial media system. Currently the major fight is to keep the gates of the Internet open to all.

The book develops some ideas for media reform such as municipal broadband systems and community wireless networks. Copyright reform will be the next battle for media reform movement. Democracy cannot exist without free press. There must be a democratic reform of the media. Looking across the pond from Europe on the US I am deeply concerned about the decline of the US trade union movements. Who will fight for this democratic reform of the media? One person found this helpful.

This book is so complete, so remarkable that I've been haranguing friends and family to read it. It's much like reading a great history book and then never being able to look at anything to do with that period in time without a completely different paradigm. This book will answer and change you idea of what our countries media was, has become, and could be.

There is a simmering undercurrent of media activism brewing out there amongst the public. Plenty of regular folks are getting fed up with the corporate consolidation of media outlets, with the resulting sameness of content, the relentless advertising and push for profitability, and the disappearance of localism and dissenting viewpoints. Though this book is unlikely to be a widespread influence on the general public, this is exactly the type of screed that can get its readers interested in learning more about the severe and growing problems in the American media, and to think about making a difference as media activists.

Supervised by the leading academic expert on such matters, Robert McChesney, this book collects essays and research on the political and economic forces that have resulted in the sorry state of today's radio, TV, newspapers, and internet access. The biggest topics of discussion are FCC ownership rules and spectrum allocation; corporate collusion and the disappearance of competition; and constitutional and ethical issues such as the public interest standard and open access to information.

Since this is a collection of essays by different experts and activists, there are a few missteps here, particularly a couple of entries in Part 2, which get much too specific and occasionally condescending when discussing exemplary local issues. Also, overall the chapters get rather repetitive as the different authors tend to build from the same basic information and concerns, especially FCC regulations and media ownership patterns it's important to understand these things of course, but some editing of repetitive statements in this book would have been an asset.

The tail end of the book gets into more detailed issues and presents a few enlightening surprises in areas like community wireless networks and copyright law. And finally, what makes this book a truly unique winner is the activism guide that makes up about the last 70 pages. While some of the recommendations are a bit obvious and are sometimes overly idealistic, this guide for budding activists in media democracy should prove to be incredibly useful for those who are tired of the watered-down and lowest-common-denominator media, which only talks about things that are important for corporate and political power elites.

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