Saving American journalism Interview with freepress.net co-founder Robert McChesney now online

The Kansas City Star has shrunk, laying off hundreds. Newspapers around the country are folding. Free Press co-founders Robert McChesney and John Nichols recently wrote a piece in The Nation about it called "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers"
(http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/nichols_mcchesney?rel=hp_picks)
or as McChesney described it, "saving American journalism, my take With John Nichols."

On this week's Tell Somebody, I spoke with McChesney about the state of American journalism and what he thinks we can do about it. The show is now available for download at http://tellsomebody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=453346.

Robert McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois. He hosts the program Media Matters on WILL-AM every Sunday afternoon from 1-2PM central time. He and John Nichols, The Nation's Washington correspondent, are the founders of Free Press, the media reform network, and the authors of Tragedy and Farce: How the American Media Sell Wars, Spin Elections, and Destroy Democracy (New Press). He has written 16 books and his work has been translated into 15 languages.

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Links:
The Slate article I discussed with McChesney is
Democracy's Cheat Sheet?It's time to kill the idea that newspapers are essential for democracy.
By Jack Shafer
Posted Friday, March 27, 2009, at 6:05 PM ET
http://www.slate.com/id/2214724

other links:
http://www.freepress.net/
http://www.democracynow.org/
http://kcactive.com/

Tell Somebody interview with Amy Goodman
http://tellsomebody.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=449827

my op-ed on Afghanistan:
http://kcactive.com/comment/oped/index.htm

Bruce Rodgers commentary on KC Plant:
Fight to stop a new KC Plant isn’t over
http://kcactive.com/news/newscomm/index.htm

Journalist Amy Goodman Tells It Like It Is on KC Visit for KKFI Radio
http://www.kctribune.com/article.cfm?articleID=18764


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