Robert W. McChesney | Academic Influence

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Waterman McChesney [IPA: /məkˈt͡ʃɛs.ni/] is an American professor notable in the history and political economy of communications, and the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He co-founded the Free Press, a national media reform organization. In 2002–12, he hosted Media Matters, a weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL , Illinois Public Media radio.

Robert W. McChesney's Published Works

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Published Papers

Rich media, poor democracy : communication politics in dubious times (581)
The global media : the new missionaries of corporate capitalism (529)
The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas (365)
Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy (359)
Rich Media, Poor Democracy (304)
The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century (253)
The global media: the new missionaries of global capitalism (237)
Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 (236)
Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism (224)
Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (216)
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again (186)
Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media (179)
Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It (173)
The Problem of Journalism: a political economic contribution to an explanation of the crisis in contemporary US journalism (143)
The endless crisis (112)
The political economy of communication and the future of the field (101)
The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism (91)
Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle against Corporate Media (89)
The Internet and U. S. Communication Policy-Making in Historical and Critical Perspective (82)
Selling Radio: The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. (74)
The Internet and U. S. Communication Policy-Making in Historical and Critical Perspective (73)
Theses on media deregulation (55)
Surveillance Capitalism: Monopoly-Finance Capital, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Digital Age (55)
Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism (54)
Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism (52)
The Internationalization of Monopoly Capital (51)
The future of media : resistance and reform in the 21st century (50)
Monopoly-Finance Capital and the Paradox of Accumulation (49)
The endless crisis : how monopoly-finance capital produces stagnation and upheaval from the U.S.A. to China (48)
September 11 and the Structural Limitations of Us Journalism (41)
Our unfree press : 100 years of radical media criticism (36)
The Quieted Voice: The Rise and Demise of Localism in American Radio (36)
The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism (36)
Is There Any Hope for Cultural Studies (35)
FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM? (34)
The U.S. Imperial Triangle and MIlitary Spending (33)
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America (32)
Corporate media, global capitalism (28)
Media Policy Goes to Main Street: The Uprising of 2003 (28)
Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (28)
The Penal State in an Age of Crisis (27)
Critical Communication Research at the Crossroads. (27)
The death and life of great American newspapers (26)
The Battle for the U.S. Airwaves, 1928–1935 (24)
Free Speech and Democracy! Louis G. Caldwell, the American Bar Association and the Debate over the Free Speech Implications of Broadcast Regulation, 1928–1938 (23)
The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction (23)
Ruthless criticism : new perspectives in U.S. communication history (22)
Off limits: an inquiry into the lack of debate over the ownership, structure and control of the mass media in US political life (22)
FAREWELL TO JOURNALISM? (22)
Kipling, the 'White Man's Burden,' and U.S. Imperialism (21)
The Global Stagnation and China (19)
People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy (19)
Journalism is dead! Long live journalism?: why democratic societies will need to subsidise future news production (17)
Journalism, Democracy, … and Class Struggle (16)
Lee De Forest and the Fatherhood of Radio (16)
Telecommunications, mass media and democracy : battle for control of US broadcasting, 1928-35 (15)
Listen Keynesians, It's the System! Response to Palley (15)
Pox Americana; Exposing the American Empire (15)
The Commercial Tidal Wave (14)
The Global Struggle for Democratic Communication (13)
The Sales Effort and Monopoly Capital (13)
The US news media and World War III (13)
Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible: Three Radically Democratic Internet Policies (12)
The American Empire: Pax Americana or Pox Americana? (12)
The Political Economy of Communication (11)
The Political Economy of Global Communication (11)
Murdoch's Politics: How One Man's Thirst For Wealth and Power Shapes our World (11)
Crusade Against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL and the Debate Over Radio in the 1930s (10)
Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting: The 1997 Spry Memorial Lecture (10)
The 'Left-Wing' Media? (10)
The Political Economy of the Mass Media: An Interview with Edward Herman (10)
The Political Economy of Global Media (10)
Press-Radio Relations and the Emergence of Network, Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1930–1935 (10)
Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism (9)
The crisis of journalism and the Internet (9)
The U.S. Media Reform Movement: Going Forward (8)
Capitalism, the Absurd System: A View from the United States (8)
Labor and the marketplace of ideas : WCFL and the battle for labor radio broadcasting, 1927-1934 (7)
Franklin Roosevelt, His Administration, and the Communications Act of 1934 (7)
The Wisconsin Uprising (6)
How to save journalism (6)
Public Broadcasting in the Age of Communications Revolution (6)
The Mythology of Commercial Broadcasting and the Contemporary Crisis of Public Broadcasting (6)
Constant Retreat: The American Civil Liberties Union and the Debate Over the Meaning of Free Speech for Radio Broadcasting in the 1930s (6)
The Global Stagnation and China :: Monthly Review (6)
The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy (5)
Our unfree press : 100 years of media criticism (5)
The big picture : understanding media through political economy (5)
The U.S. Left and Media Politics (5)
Understanding the Media Reform Movement (5)
A New New Deal under Obama (5)
Capitalism, the Absurd System (5)
News Media as Political Institutions (4)
Strategies for Media Reform (4)
Erratum: The internationalization of monopoly capital (Monthly Review (2011) (20)) (4)
The International Political Economy of Communication: Media and Power in South America (4)
My Media Studies (4)
Welcome to Havana, Mr Corleone: Issues of Media Ownership (4)
Media and Democracy: The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1935. (4)
Standpoint: Communication for the hell of it: The triviality of U.S. broadcasting history (4)
The money & media election complex (4)
Telling the truth at a moment of truth: US news media and the invasion and occupation of Iraq (4)
Communication Activism| Missing in Action: Engaged U.S. Communication Research in the Context of Democratic Decline and the Digital Revolution (3)
Testing sustainability : A new framework (3)
The Bull Market: Political Advertising (3)
Who' LL unplug big media? Stay tuned (3)
Advertising at War (3)
The making of a movement: Getting serious about media reform (3)
An Almost Incredible Absurdity for a Democracy (3)
Sharp Left Turn for the Media Reform Movement: Toward a Post-Capitalist Democracy (3)
The International Political Economy of Communication (2)
Standpoint: Wither communication? (2)
Communication as a Public Good (2)
This Isn't What Democracy Looks Like (2)
Freedom of the Press for Whom? The Question to Be Answered in Our Critical Juncture (2)
The Personal Is Political: The Political Economy of Noncommercial Radio Broadcasting in the United States (2)
The Escalating War Against Corporate Media (2)
Erratum: The global reserve army of labor and the new imperialism (Monthly Review (2011) (28)) (2)
Foreword: Radio and the Responsibility of Radio Scholars (2)
Corporate media versus democracy (2)
Contribution to Will the last reporter please turn out the lights (1)
The Meiklejohn Challenge (1)
The US Media: Freedom, Power, & Profits (1)
The Struggle for Democratic Media (1)
Thank the Lord, It's a War to End All Wars ... Or, How I Learned to Suspend Critical Judgment and Love the Bomb (1)
Radical Scholarship in the Academy: The View From Communications (1)
The Struggle for Democratic Media: Lessons from the North and from the Left (0)
3. Media and Democracy (0)
Book Reviews -- Reading Football: How the Popular Press Created an American Spectacle by Michael Oriard (0)
Books received (0)
Open media and the threat to democracy (0)
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Chapter 15: Liberalism and the Media (0)
Toward a reinterpretation of the American press-radio war of the 1930s (0)
Book Reviews (0)
A Rare Opportunity for Progressives (0)
Special Section on Media Reform | Understanding the Media Reform Movement (0)
John Carver Edwards. Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third Reich. New York: Praeger. 1991. Pp. x, 238. $21.95 (0)
Review of Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935 by Robert W. McChesney (0)
Never Lose Faith in Humanity (0)
Advanced Java EE Development for Rational Application Developer 7.5: Developers' Guidebook (0)
"An almost incredible absurdity" for a democracy : the response of U.S. intellectuals to the emergence of network, commercial broadcasting, 1930-1935 (0)
Panel I: Media Regulation, Access and the First Amendment (0)
Solution to Problem 4938 [1960,1933] - Representations with non-integral radix (0)
The Cambridge History of Iran, Volume 6, The Timurid and Safavid Periods, Peter Jackson and the late Laurence Lockhart eds., Cambridge, 1986, xxiii, 1987 pp. 72 plates. (0)
Ralph Engelman, Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Sage Publications Inc., 1996. 342 pp. Cloth, $52. Paper, $24.95 (0)
Strange days indeed! : Louis G. Caldwell, the American Bar Association, the American legal community and the changing attitude toward federal regulation of broadcasting, 1928-1938 (0)
Rupert Murdoch: Not Silent, But Deadly (0)
Review Essay (0)
Robert McChesney : An American Painter (0)
Liberalism and the Media (0)
The Personal Is Political (0)
The Zillionth Time as Tragedy (0)
Comcast-NBCU leviathan (0)
For media democracy (0)
The Debate Over Public Policy and the Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1935 (0)
Robert W. McChesney and Ben Scott on the Centrality of Media Reform (0)
Rejuvenating American Journalism: Some Tentative Policy Proposals Workshop Presentation on Journalism, Federal Trade Commission Washington, D.C., March 10, 2010 (0)
Problems for Solution: 4935-4940 (0)
Book Reviews (0)
Book Reviews (0)
A Internacionalização do Capital Monopolista (0)
The battle for America's ears and minds the debate over the control and structure of American radio broadcasting, 1930-1935 (0)
1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending (0)
Un nuevo New Deal con Obama (0)
The de blasio mandate (0)
Intellectuals, the Media and the Crisis of our Times (0)

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