American journalism is collapsing as newspapers and magazines fail and scores of reporters are laid off across the country. Conventional wisdom says the Internet is to blame, but veteran journalists and media critics Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols disagree. The crisis of American journalism[...]
Fresh from the first $10 billion election campaign, two award-winning authors show how unbridled campaign spending defines our politics and, failing a dramatic intervention, signals the end of our democracy.
Blending vivid reporting from the 2012 campaign trail and deep perspective from [...]
In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly democratic and sustainable society. It threatens to become self-fulfilling. In this trailblazing new [...]
Deals with Media and Journalism.
Hailed as "important" ("Truthdig") and praised for its "excellent insight" (Patricia J. Williams, "The Nation"), "Digital Disconnect," by activist and "exemplary public intellectual" ("Choice") Robert W. McChesney, skewers the assumption that a society drenched in information in a digital age is inh[...]