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The death and life of American journalism : the media revolution that will begin the world again
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The death and life of American journalism : the media revolution that will begin the world again

Author: Robert Waterman McChesney; John Nichols
Publisher: Philadelphia, PA : Nation Books, 2010.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st Nation Books edView all editions and formats
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Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone. Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American democracy, is not just threatened. It is in meltdown. In The Death and Life of American Journalism, Robert W. McChesney,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Robert Waterman McChesney; John Nichols
ISBN: 9781568586052 1568586051
OCLC Number: 326649068
Description: xvii, 334 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: American crisis, American opportunity --
The crisis in journalism --
Flawed choices, false hopes --
Why the State --
Subsidizing democracy --
The age of the possible --
Appendix I: Founding principles --
Appendix II: Ike, MacArthur, and the forging of free and independent press --
Appendix III: Sources for the book's charts.
Other Titles: Media revolution that will begin the world again
Responsibility: Robert W. McChesney, John Nichols.
Local System Bib Number:
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