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Michael Sigman: News/PR Line Gets Blurrier (The Huffington Post) (huffingtonpost.com) - March 16, 2010
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers -- Daniel Boorstin For a minute, in 1982, after the magazine I'd...

Point Austin: Have You Heard the Dish? (The Austin Chronicle) (austinchronicle.com) - March 12, 2010
The ambivalent state of political journalism

“Rejuvenating American Journalism” (Columbia Journalism Review) (cjr.org) - March 10, 2010
Among those who care about serious journalism, some are counting on an economic comeback that will bring sufficient media advertising back to newspapers and Web sites to support quality reporting; oth…

Authors discuss future of journalism (The Columbia Chronicle) (columbiachronicle.com) - March 10, 2010
With Bankrupt newspapers and an abundance of job losses among reporters, most people have turned to the Internet or blogs to get their daily news. But two men are determined to change that and save th…

‘We must fight, fight, fight’ for liberties (The Capital Times) (host.madison.com) - March 10, 2010
Michael Foot, the British journalist, author and parliamentarian who has died at age 96, was a comrade and hero of this writer for three decades.

Cynthia Laitman, champion of media reform and democracy (The Capital Times) (host.madison.com) - March 03, 2010
The work of building a media reform movement began long before Bob McChesney and I started writing about issues of media monopoly, the decay of newspapers and the current crisis in journalism, and it…

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Robert mcchesney on International Journalism Subsidies
Meet Authors Bob mcchesney and John Nichols
Nichols and mcchesney: The Death and Life of American Journalism
Robert mcchesney & John Nichols - The Death and Life of American Journalism, Jan. 20, 2010
An Interview with Free Press Founder Bob mcchesney
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Blog Posts

Free Mumia Abu Jamal: New Book on Mumia and the Media (freemumianow.blogspot.com) - March 17, 2010
Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ". . . provides very useful data on the role and potential of media literacy (and, in particular, of using video to deconstruct mainstre…

SchansBlog: from supposed monopoly to needing a big subidy: how ... (schansblog.blogspot.com) - March 16, 2010
Welch opens with a quote from media historian Robert W. McChesney a decade ago-- on the AOL/Time merger: "a violation of any known theory of a free press in a democratic society...[would lead to] anot…

Michael Sigman: News/PR Line Gets Blurrier (huffingtonpost.com) - March 16, 2010
In their book The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols observe that "A major development in the past decade…

State-Owned Banks to Serve Main Street | American Pendulum (americanpendulum.com) - March 14, 2010
He is the co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of The Death and Life of American Journalism, just published by Nation Books. more… Posted in U.S. Economy | No Comments ». Previous Topic: Wars Sending…

Public banking: State ownership offers a wealth of advantages ... (oregonlive.com) - March 13, 2010
He is the co-author, with Robert W. McChesney, of "The Death and Life of American Journalism?" RecommendRecommend (0). Print this Email this. Share this: Previous story: Obama and Democrats forget: It…

RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY - ROBERT W. MCCHESNEY (tannokan-perspective.blogspot.com) - March 10, 2010
The commercialized structure of the mass media and the traditional public service roles attributed to mass communication in democracies is a source of chronic tension. The main point underlying McChes…

Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc. » Blog Archive » March 4 ... (blog.semcoop.com) - February 16, 2010
In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney, an academic, and John Nichols, a journalist, who together founded the nation's leading media reform network, Free Press, investigate…

The four percent solution (fightingbob.com) - January 28, 2010
Blogs and websites generate less than five percent of the nation's news content but take all of the blame for the newspaper's demise.

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noel hidalgo: robert mcchesney from @FreePress is once again affirming the US govt has always subsidised the "press." how do we do that w/ the internet? (twitter.com) - March 10, 2010
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Jeppe Kruse: Amazon.com: The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again (9781568586052): Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols: Books (amazon.com) - March 03, 2010
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Mr. Death: Resurrecting Journalism : Common Breath Media (digg.com) - March 01, 2010
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Paul Hyland: Fascinating book discussion on Bob Edwards show re: journalism crisis, public funding models w/ Robert McChesney, John Nichols #futureofnews (twitter.com) - February 28, 2010
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Matthew Harman: Chris Hedges: Chris Hedges on ‘The Death and Life of American Journalism’ (truthdig.com) - February 27, 2010
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