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Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism

Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism

Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism
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Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism Paperback - 2004

by Robert W. McChesney~Ben Scott

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For anyone concerned by corporate consolidation of the media, this must-read reveals the necessity of a radical revision in our perception of the business of media.

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  • Title Our Unfree Press: 100 Years of Radical Media Criticism
  • Author Robert W. McChesney~Ben Scott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Black Stripe on
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press, New York, NY
  • Publication date May, 2004
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003877124
  • ISBN 9781565848559 / 1565848551
  • Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.25 x 6.13 x 1.17 in (23.50 x 15.57 x 2.97 cm)
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  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Freedom of the press - United States, Mass media - Ownership - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2003061542
  • Dewey Decimal Code 323.445
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Book

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From the publisher

The FCC's recent controversial decision to roll back restrictions on media conglomeration produced an outpouring of protest and dissent; more than 700,000 Americans personally registered complaints along with organizations as diverse as NOW and the NRA.

In Our Unfree Press, Robert McChesney and Ben Scott demonstrate that, like the corporations themselves, criticism of media monopolies has a long tradition. Featuring the work of Upton Sinclair, C. Wright Mills, Walter Lippmann, Noam Chomsky, and many others, this provocative anthology charts such topics as the consolidation of ownership, the role of advertising, and the corruptions of profit. An extensive lead essay contextualizes pieces spanning the Progressive Era to the present day, making it abundantly clear that countering the media oligarchs requires more than token reforms. A must-read for anyone concerned by corporate consolidation of the media, Our Unfree Press reveals the necessity of a radical revision in our perception of the business of media.

About the author

Robert W. McChesney (1952-2025) was the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of some two dozen books on media and political economy, including Digital Disconnect, Communication Revolution, and the award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy; a co-author, with John Nichols, of Tragedy and Farce; and a co-editor, with Ben Scott, of Our Unfree Press, and, with Victor Pickard, of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights (all published by The New Press). McChesney and Nichols are also the co-authors of the award-winning Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America. McChesney's work has been translated into thirty-one languages.

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