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  • The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy

    The Local Journalism Initiative: a proposal to protect and extend democracy

    Originally published: Columbia Journalism Review on November 30, 2021 by John Nichols (more by Columbia Journalism Review)

    What remains less appreciated is that the founders of the United States regarded creating a free press a policy issue of the greatest possible importance.

  • The Decline of American Journalism – Robert McChesney

    The decline of American Journalism

    Paul Jay and Robert W. McChesney

    The media is driven by the enormous profits made during election campaigns. Feeding the fury and the fear of all types is just good for business. Bob McChesney joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news podcast.

  • Mega-billionaire, Democratic presidential candidate, and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a campaign stop at Eastern Market in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 2020. (Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images)

    If Bloomberg wants to buy an election, he should run as a Republican against Trump—not sabotage Democrats

    Originally published: Common Dreams on February 11, 2020 (more by Common Dreams)  |

    The mega-billionaire should be running against Trump in the Republican primaries, not as a Democrat. If he actually cared about this country more than stroking his massive ego that is exactly what he would be doing.

  • Media Capitalism, the State, and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney

    Robert W. McChesney and Tanner Mirrlees

      The Media, the Left, and Power Tanner Mirrlees: Why do you think it is important for progressives to understand the media and participate in media democracy struggles? Robert McChesney: The media is one of the key areas in society where power is exercised, reinforced, and contested.  It is hard to imagine a successful left […]

  • Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson, Authors of “Bridge Loan to Nowhere”

    Robert W. McChesney and Robert Johnson and Thomas Ferguson

      Play now: Download: mp3 file Cf: “Bridge Loan to Nowhere,” The Nation (22 September 2008) This interview was broadcast on the “Media Matters with Bob McChesney” program (AM580) on 28 September 2008. | | Print

  • The Monthly Review Story: 1949-1984

    Robert W. McChesney

    I wrote this as a paper for a seminar in history during my first year of grad school at the University of Washington in 1984.  It was a labor of love for me because it gave me an opportunity to read every single issue of Monthly Review , all of which were carefully kept in […]

  • Stop Postal Rate Hikes

    Robert W. McChesney

    Dear friend, relative, or acquaintance of Bob McChesney, The news media are covering the tragic murders in Virginia this morning, and as they do an extraordinarily significant story is slipping through the cracks. On very rare occasions, I send a message to everyone in my email address book on an issue that I find of […]

  • The National Conference for Media Reform

    Robert W. McChesney

    The National Conference for Media Reform Memphis, Tennessee January 12-14, 2007 Media reform is coming to Memphis! Mark your calendar and make your reservations — registration for the 2007 National Conference for Media Reform is now open.  This one-of-a-kind event will take place on January 12-14, 2007, in the home of the blues and birthplace […]

Also By Robert W. McChesney in Monthly Review Magazine

  • The Personal Is Political March 01, 2015
  • Surveillance Capitalism July 01, 2014
  • Rupert Murdoch: Not Silent, But Deadly June 01, 2014
  • Sharp Left Turn for the Media Reform Movement February 01, 2014
  • The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital July 01, 2013
  • This Isn’t What Democracy Looks Like November 01, 2012
  • The Endless Crisis May 01, 2012
  • The Bull Market April 01, 2012

Books By Robert W. McChesney

  • Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce October 11, 2017
  • Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the Struggle for Post-Capitalist Democracy November 19, 2014

Monthly Review Essays

  • From Commodity Fetishism to Teleological Positing: Lukács’s Concept of Labor and Its Relevance
    Wang Pu Historia y conciencia de clase y el marxismo de Georg Lukács - Dialektika

    The concept of labor constituted a pivotal problematic in Georg Lukács’s theoretical development throughout his Marxist years.

Lost & Found

  • Russia and the Ukraine crisis: The Eurasian Project in conflict with the triad imperialist policies
    Samir Amin State flag of Ukraine behind a wall of anonymous protesters in Kyiv, Ukraine

    We wanted to draw readers attention to this piece by Samir Amin, which was written at the time of the Maidan Coup in 2014. —Eds. 1. The current global stage is dominated by the attempt of historical centers of imperialism (the U.S., Western and Central Europe, Japan—hereafter called “the Triad”) to maintain their exclusive control […]

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