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

[C. G. Estabrook]

John! John! Your face is purple and your eyes are bulging out!


John W. wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:jencart13 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
> 
> From: Bob Mcchesney <rwmcchesney at gmail.com <mailto:rwmcchesney at gmail.com>> 
> Subject: My new book: The Death and Life of American Journalism To:
> rwmcches at illinois.edu <mailto: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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