Robert W. McChesney

Robert W. McChesney is also a Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and co-editor of Monthly Review.

Liberalism and the media

I have looked at the glass of liberalism and seen it as half-full. If we are ever going to change our societies for the better, it will be as advocates of the best of the liberal tradition.

By Robert W. McChesney

/ 12 Aug 2014

When we talk about the Internet, we are talking about the bone marrow of contemporary monopoly capitalism

In a wide-ranging interview, the author and media reform activist Robert W. McChesney discusses the political economy of the Internet, the crisis in contemporary journalism, and the struggle to create a media system equal to the needs of democracy.

By Robert W. McChesney and Dan Hind

/ 8 Jul 2013

It’s a wrap? Why media matters to democracy

In this final contribution to the openDemocracy debate on media ownership, I wish to deal with two issues. First, I want to clarify my core argument, if only because Ben

By Robert W. McChesney

/ 8 May 2002

Media corporations versus democracy: a response to Benjamin Compaine

Benjamin Compaine makes one huge empirical challenge to my argument, but otherwise he either dodges the issues I raise or regurgitates half-baked PR from the media corporations and the US

By Robert W. McChesney

/ 14 Nov 2001

Policing the thinkable

Over the past two decades, as a result of neoliberal deregulation and new communication technologies, the media systems across the world have undergone a startling transformation. There are now fewer

By Robert W. McChesney

/ 24 Oct 2001