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The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

Robert W. McChesney

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.

Robert W. McChesney

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers... is absurd.

Robert W. McChesney

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

Robert W. McChesney

In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

Robert W. McChesney

Robert W. McChesney

Robert W. McChesney

Born: December 22, 1952

Died: March 25, 2025 (aged 72)

Bio: Robert Waterman McChesney was an American professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign as the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication.

Known for:

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (1999)

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