{"id":18191,"date":"2025-04-08T21:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/robert-w-mcchesney-who-warned-of-corporate-media-control-dies-at-72\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:21:34","slug":"robert-w-mcchesney-who-warned-of-corporate-media-control-dies-at-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/robert-w-mcchesney-who-warned-of-corporate-media-control-dies-at-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert W. McChesney, an influential left-leaning media critic who argued that corporate ownership was bad for American journalism and that Silicon Valley billionaires who dominated online information were a threat to democracy, died on March 25, at his home in Madison, Wis. He was 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, his wife, Inger Stole, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor McChesney was grounded both in academia \u2014 he had a Ph.D. in communications and taught at universities \u2014 and in ink-on-paper journalism: He was the founding publisher of The Rocket, a Seattle music magazine that reviewed Nirvana\u2019s first single.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His primary thesis, expressed in more than a dozen books and in scores of articles and interviews, was that corporate-owned news media was overly compliant with the political powers that be and that it restricted the views Americans were exposed to. He further argued that the promise of the internet \u2014 of a Wild West market of opinions \u2014 had been throttled by a few giant owners of online platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An early book, \u201cRich Media, Poor Democracy\u201d (1999), warned that consolidation in journalism would undermine democratic norms. In perhaps his best-known work, \u201cDigital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy\u201d (2013), he rejected the utopian view that the digital revolution would usher in an open frontier of information sources and invigorate democracy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Instead, he showed how the internet was devastating the business model for newspapers, while supplanting civically minded coverage of local government with lowest-common-denominator fluff: celebrity gossip, cat videos and personal naval gazing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor McChesney blamed capitalism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe profit motive, commercialism, public relations, marketing, and advertising \u2014 all defining features of contemporary corporate capitalism \u2014 are foundational to any assessment of how the Internet has developed and is likely to develop,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An unapologetic socialist, Professor McChesney argued that the government should give all Americans $200 vouchers to donate to nonprofit news outlets of their choice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He campaigned for Senator Bernie Sanders\u2019s presidential races. Mr. Sanders returned the favor by writing a forward to Professor McChesney\u2019s book \u201cDollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America\u201d (2013), written with John Nichols.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/robert-mcchesney-capitalism-is-a-bad-fit-for-a-technological-revolution\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Truthout, a nonprofit news site focused on social justice, Professor McChesney attacked the mainstream media\u2019s coverage of Mr. Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary that he lost to Hillary Clinton. CNN and MSNBC, he said, were deeply biased in favor of \u201ccentrist\u201d candidates representing the status quo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne can only imagine how Sanders would have done if he had coverage from MSNBC similar to what Obama received in 2007-08,\u201d Professor McChesney said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The conservative writer David Horowitz put Professor McChesney on a list of the \u201c101 Most Dangerous Academics in America\u201d in 2006, including him among \u201ctenured radicals\u201d who were indoctrinating U.S. students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On the other hand, in 2008 Utne Reader <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.utne.com\/media\/50-Visionaries-Who-Are-Changing-Your-World\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">named<\/a> Professor McChesney as one of the \u201c50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor McChesney warned in 2016 that when corporate giants dominate online information \u2014 at the time, those giants were Facebook and Google \u2014 they hold too much power over what people know of the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is really antithetical to anything remotely close to a free press and a free society,\u201d he <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2016\/5\/19\/robert_mcchesney_facebooks_monopoly_surveillance_antithetical\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an interview with the left-leaning news outlet \u201cDemocracy Now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The way to deal with such monopolies was to nationalize them, he said. He suggested a government takeover that would make internet behemoths into a quasi-public service, like the Post Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor McChesney was also one of the founders, in 2003, of a public interest group, Free Press, that opposed corporate consolidation in the news business and that led a national campaign for net neutrality, calling for equal access to the internet for all content producers, from giants like Netflix to individual bloggers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Robert Waterman McChesney was born on Dec. 22, 1952, in Cleveland, one of two sons of Samuel P. McChesney Jr., an advertising executive at This Week, a syndicated magazine inserted in Sunday newspapers, and Edna (McCorkle) McChesney.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He grew up in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights and attended Pomfret, a prep school in Connecticut. In 1977, he graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree from Evergreen State College, in Washington, where he studied politics and economics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 1979, after working as a sports stringer for U.P.I. and an editor at The Seattle Sun, an alternative weekly, he became the publisher of The Rocket, which charted the emergence of the Seattle grunge-rock scene in the 1980s and \u201990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Intellectually restless, he then enrolled in graduate school at the University of Washington, earning a Ph.D. in communications in 1989. For a decade, he taught in the journalism and mass communication department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He and his wife, Dr. Stole, who also had a Ph.D. in communications, then moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the communications department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Professor McChesney\u2019s books also include \u201cWill the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights?\u201d (2011), with Victor Pickard, and \u201cCorporate Media and the Threat to Democracy\u201d (1997).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In addition to his wife, he is survived by their daughters, Amy and Lucy McChesney; and a brother, Samuel P. McChesney III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a late book, \u201cPeople Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy\u201d (2016), written with Mr. Nichols, Professor McChesney argued that artificial intelligence and the digital revolution would wipe out numerous categories of jobs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cCapitalism as we know it is a very bad fit for the technological revolution we are beginning to experience,\u201d he said in an interview about the book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur argument is that we currently have a citizenless democracy,\u201d he went on. \u201cBy that we mean a governing system where all the important decisions of government are made to suit the interests and values of the wealthiest and most powerful Americans, and the corporations they own.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/08\/business\/media\/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert W. 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