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Communication politics in dubious times the history of communication, published by university of illinois press. This new edition includes a major new preface by mcchesney, where he offers both a history of the transformation in media since the. Mcchesney, along with media critic mark crispin miller, surveys the contemporary media landscape through the lens of constitutional democracy to correct the myopic corporate vision of these telecommunications. His rich media, poor democracy is a radical yet rational treatise on how the media have been corrupted by corporate interests, and how the diametrical shift of art and informationfrom elements of free expression and public service to capitalist selfinteresthas affected every american.
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