[Peace-discuss] My [McChesney's] new book: The Death and Life of American Journalism

[John W.]

I'm going to hold my breath until we in America recognize the "international
crisis" and implement "strong public subsidies to create a viable,
independent news media."



On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>wrote:



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> --- On *Wed, 1/13/10, Bob Mcchesney <rwmcchesney at gmail.com>* wrote:
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> From: Bob Mcchesney <rwmcchesney at gmail.com>
> Subject: My new book: The Death and Life of American Journalism
> To: rwmcches at illinois.edu
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 12:24 PM
>
> Dear friend, relative, acquaintance, or person who showed up in Bob
> McChesney’s address book,
>
> My new book, *The Death and Life of American Journalism*<http://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-American-Journalism-Revolution/dp/1568586051/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247782505&sr=1-1>,
> which I wrote with my friend John Nichols, has just been published this last
> week by Nation Books. I think it is the best and most important book we have
> written, and of the utmost importance. It provides a comprehensive and
> original explanation of the current crisis in journalism, a critique of the
> current favored “solutions” to the crisis, and an argument for strong public
> subsidies to create a viable, independent news media. It is based on years
> of research, but has been written to address the deep crisis of the
> immediate moment and visible future.
>
> I hope this book will interest you and you will consider reading it. For a
> taste of our argument, see this week’s cover story in
> <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100125/nichols_mcchesney>*The Nation*<http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100125/nichols_mcchesney>.
> We will also be discussing the book with David Brancaccio on PBS’s NOW<http://www.pbs.org/now/>on Friday, January 15.
>
> The argument and the proposals we make are controversial and go against the
> conventional wisdom, so we provide considerable original evidence to make
> our case. The response from experts who have read the book has been
> heartening. Lawrence Lessig calls it a “beautifully crafted and compelling
> book.” Juan Gonzalez calls it “the best depiction yet of the rapid
> disintegration of America’s old system of news.” Mark Crispin Miller calls
> it a “landmark history/diagnosis of our current journalistic crisis.” Dan
> Rather said “This is an important book. It offers many new sunbursts of
> thought.” After reading the book, Naomi Klein said of us, “no two people are
> more dedicated to the transformative, democratizing power of journalism not
> as it is, but as it should be.”
>
> If you wish to purchase it online, in addition to Amazon<http://www.amazon.com/Death-Life-American-Journalism-Revolution/dp/1568586051/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1247782505&sr=1-1>or
> Powell's <http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781568586052-0>
> <http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781568586052-0>or any other vendor, you
> might consider ordering it through the website of a local independent
> bookstore. (The website of an independent bookstore we patronize in Madison,
> Rainbow Books <http://www.rainbowbookstore.org/>, for example, is offering
> the book at a discount.)
>
> Please consider sending this email on to any friends you think might be
> interested in the subject. Thanks for your time. I apologize if you get this
> email more than once, but my address book is impossibly difficult to edit,
> at least for me.
>
> If you do read the book, I would love to get your feedback.
>
> Happy new year.
>
> Bob McChesney
>
> PS­For my friends outside the United States, John and I think the book may
> have value for other nations as they address their crises in journalism as
> well. This is an international crisis.
>
>

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