Robert W McChesney
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WELCOME to the website of Robert W. McChesney. McChesney is the author of eight books on media and politics, professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and host of the weekly talk show, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio. McChesney also writes widely for both academic and non-academic publications. He gives talks frequently on issues related to media and politics in the United States and world today. If you look around this home page you will find links to many of McChesney's activities, plus contact information. This website is updated on a regular basis

Current students looking for course syllabi can find them as PDF files below:
Comm 264 - Economic Structure of Communication
Comm 468 - The Politicial Economy of Communication

IN MEMORIAM of Paul Wellstone, please take a moment to...
READ his introduction to It's the Media, Stupid, entitled Media & Democracy.
LISTEN to his comments on democacy and the media (mp3 format).

Our Media Not Theirs cover Our Media,
Not Theirs

Robert McChesney
& John Nichols
Seven Stories Press
2002


  RM PD cover Rich Media,
Poor Democracy

Robert McChesney
New Press
2000
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Now available online
: A list of books featuring chapters or sections written by Bob McChesney, complete with purchasing links.

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BOOKS
It's the Media, Stupid
John H. Nichols & Robert McChesney
Seven Stories Press, 2000
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The Global Media
Edward Herman & Robert McChesney
Cassell, 1997
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Corporate Media & the Threat to Democracy
Robert McChesney
Seven Stories Press, 1997
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Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy
Robert McChesney
Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.
reviews awards
Capitalism and the Information Age
Robert McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood & John Bellamy Foster, Eds.
Monthly Review Press, 1998.
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Ruthless Criticism
William Solomon & Robert McChesney, Eds.
University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
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Site last updated: March 3, 2002