November 12, 1999
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Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times by Robert W. McChesney (University of Illinois Press)
The information age is bad for public life, argues Mr. McChesney, who teaches communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: As newspapers, television stations, and radio stations are increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy corporations, the media have become a decidedly anti-democratic force.
Q. Doesn't the inherent
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