Recent talk with McChesney available online (audio):





RICH MEDIA, POOR DEMOCRACY:


Communication Politics in Dubious Times





by Robert W. McChesney, Research Professor, Institute of Communications Research and Graduate

School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at

Urbana-Champaign.





Robert McChesney's "Rich Media, Poor Democracy" (The New Press, 1999)

destroys the assumption that a society drenched in commercial

information "choices" is a democratic one. McChesney maintains that

the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are no more

than a handful of enormous corporations, and that this concentrated

corporate control is disastrous for any notion of participatory

democracy.





Listen to the talk:





http://web.mit.edu/tac/www/mcchesney.ram