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Robert McChesney's Media Literacy Work Was Prescient - Why Didn't More People Listen? - CleanTechnica

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Generally, on April Fool’s Day I try to write a clever, tongue-in-cheek article that allows us to laugh at ourselves. This year, however, there is so little that could be made to feel light and easy. Instead, I’m going to remember the media literacy guru, Robert McChesney, who paved the ... [continued] The post Robert McChesney’s Media Literacy Work Was Prescient — Why Didn’t More People Listen? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Robert McChesney's Media Literacy Work Was Prescient - Why Didn't More People Listen? - CleanTechnica

Generally, on April Fool’s Day I try to write a clever, tongue-in-cheek article that allows us to laugh at ourselves. This year, however, there is so little that could be made to feel light and easy. Instead, I’m going to remember the media literacy guru, Robert McChesney, who paved the ... [continued] The post Robert McChesney’s Media Literacy Work Was Prescient — Why Didn’t More People Listen? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation & Big Tech

We remember media scholar Robert McChesney, the co-founder of the advocacy group Free Press, who died on March 25 at age 72. McChesney was a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a prolific author, with nearly three dozen books on media, democracy and digital rights. He warned decades ago that corporate consolidation of the press was putting too much power in the hands of wealthy interests, and was an early critic of Big Te

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Bob McChesney was a media thinker whose idealism could have led to a better world

Robert McChesney (via his website) Earlier this morning I looked up a review that I wrote for The Boston Phoenix of Robert McChesney’s breakthrough 1999 book, “Rich Media, Poor Democracy.” I had to laugh, because Bob was right and I was wrong, and for a reason I wouldn’t have expected. Over the years I had come to regard myself as more realistic than progressive media reformers like Bob, whose fertile mind produced all sorts of idealistic propos…

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