Robert McChesney

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Robert W. McChesney is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He hosts a weekly program, Media Matters, on WILL-AM radio, the NPR affiliate in Urbana, Illinois.^[1]

"Back to Basics"

Speakers at the October 1998 Back to Basics Conference in Chicago included;

Public Plenary Session, Sen. Paul Wellstone, Rep. Bernie Sanders, Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Quentin Young, Barbara Dudley, Master of Ceremonies: Jim Hightower

16 Working Panels;

• David Glenn on labor and politics
• Steve Hart on spirituality
• David Moberg on the international labor market
• Francis Calpotura on community organizing
• Joel Rogers on citizen action and social policy
• Lisa McGowan on international finance
• Katherine Sciacchitano on welfare reform
• Robert McChesney on the media
• Chris Lehmann on class in America
• Dan Cantor on electoral strategies
• Salim Muwakkil on African-American politics
• Karen Dolan on the House Progressive Caucus^[2]
• Barbara Epstein on feminism today
• Micah Sifry on campaign finance reform
• Sonya Huber on students and politics
• Nelson Lichtenstein on the future of labor^[3]

Free Press

McChesney co-founded Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund with Josh Silver in 2002. As at June 19 2010, McChesney served on the Board of Directors for the organization.^[1]

Josh Silver is the executive director of Free Press, a national, nonpartisan organization that he co-founded with Robert McChesney and John Nichols in 2002 to "engage citizens in media policy debates and create a more democratic and diverse media system". He has published extensively on media policy, campaign finance and other public policy issues.^[4]

Socialist Scholars

At the 2000 eighteenth annual Socialist Scholars Conference in New York, Monthly Review sponsored a well attended panel on culture and contemporary capitalism with Marshall Berman and Robert McChesney^[5].

Media Democracy Legal Project

Advisors to the Media Democracy Legal Project, circa 2006, included:^[6]

• Ben Bagdikian, Dean Emeritus, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
• Liane Casten, Chicago Media Watch
• Dan Fiske, National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals
• Dr. George Gerbner, Cultural Environment Movement
• Pam Kelly, Former Director, Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community
• Paul Kurtz, Council of Secular Humanists
• Joan Levin, Chicago Attorney
• Mark Lloyd, Director, People for Better TV
• Dr. Robert McChesney, Univ. of Illinois
• Ward Morehouse, Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy
• John Nichols, * Political Editor, The Nation
• Jeff Perlstein, * Executive, Media Alliance
• Professor Peter Phillips, Project Censored
• Jo Seidita & Nick Seidita, Alliance for Democracy
• Norman Solomon, FAIR
• Dr. Jerold Starr, Founder, Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting

Monthly Review celebration

On September 17, 2009, U.S. socialist magazine Monthly Review celebrated its 60th anniversary at the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City. Five-hundred enthusiastic supporters gathered to hear remarks by Robert McChesney, Grace Lee Boggs, John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Michael Tigar and hear music by Toshi Reagon^[7].

Supporting Wisconsin occupation

An event MEDIA & THE WISCONSIN LABOR STRUGGLE, was held Thursday, March 3, 2011, 7:00PM Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street, Madison.

Speakers were;^[8]

• Lisa Graves, Center for Media and Democracy
• Robert McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• John Nichols, The Nation
• Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
• Molly Stentz, WORT-FM Community Radio
• Norm Stockwell, WORT-FM Community Radio

Publications

McChesney is the author or editor of 12 award-winning books, including:

• Telecommunications, Mass Media, and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, 1928-1935
• Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy
• The Global Media: The New Missionaries of Corporate Capitalism (with Edward S. Herman)
• Our Media, Not Theirs (with John Nichols)
• Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times
• The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century
• Tragedy & Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections and Destroy Democracy (with John Nichols)
• Communication Revolution: Critical Junctures and the Future of Media

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