Our Media, Not Theirs: The Democratic Struggle Against Corporate Media

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Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich The corporate grip on the US media system means that journalism often parrots the views of those in power, and hypercommercialism puts profit above all else. The revised, updated and expanded edition of the now sold-out It's the Media, Stupid! chronicles the recent dramatic developments in media activism in the US and world-wide. Critiquing the US media system, the authors examine alternatives at work in other countries, and conclude with a proposal for meaningfully improving American media.

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An astute analysis offering compassionate solutions. I loved the book. It speaks for me. Patti Smith


McChesney and Nichols both critically assess our current media system and, even better, help us to imagine something different, mapping the transition from a period of individual frustration with corporate media toward one of collective action for their reform. Janine Jackson

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Robert W. McChesney is Research Professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is author of many books, most recently Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times. John Nichols is a Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine. He is a recipient of the Clarion Award for newspaper column writing and Inland Press Association honours for best editorial writing on an American newspaper.