12. October 2009 by admin.

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12. October 2009 by admin.

 More Mcchesney disciples lamenting corporate control of media in Canada, and championing for government control of the media under the guise of the very thing they hope to kill, Freedom.

http://oceanflynn.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/media-objectivity-in-canada-a-timeline-of-social-events/

Market liberalism describes the right-wing movement that upholds a faith in the market mechanism. “It advocates minimum government, deregulation, privatization of public services, and more economic freedoms for the private sector. It espouses an extreme version of individualism. It displays hostility towards unions, collective bargaining, and the progressive social movements that struggle for economic and social rights for various disadvantaged groups. Market liberalism is also called neoliberal, neoconservative, and the new right. Preston Manning, Ralph Klein, Mike Harris and Newt Gingrich are champions of market liberalism. It is basically a revolt of the rich — the upper middle class — in a crusade against the poor. It is presented as a commonsense revolution. The shift towards market liberalism began in 1980 (Hackett and Zhao 1998:151).

Canadian press has media blind spots. This includes “…tax breaks for the wealthy, Canada’s cosy trade-and-aid relations with regimes, such as Indonesia, that violate human rights and Canada’s substantial participation in the international arm’s trade, contrary to its self-image as a peacekeeper (Hackett and Zhao 1998:182).”

“In 1995, according to Project Censored, the U.S. press underplayed or ignored these stories, among others: the massive deregulation of telecommunications; $167 billion in annual subsidies to business, whose elimination could enable the U.S. government to balance its budget without slashing social programs; lax enforcement of U.S. child labour laws, resulting in thousands of injuries and even death of children in the workplace; $100 billion or more lost annually in medical fraud; ABC’s cancellation of a hard-hitting documentary on the tobacco industry at the same time as a tobacco company filed a $10 billion libel suit against Capital Cities/ABC; the U.S. chemical industry’s fight to prevent the banning of methyl bromide, a toxic zone-killing pesticide; the death through error or negligence of up to 180,000 patients in US hospitals each year (Hackett and Zhao 1998:182).”

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12. October 2009 by admin.

 Robert Mcchesney defends his hero, Hugo Chavez, shutting down the last resistance to tyranny

http://www.ivorytowerz.com/2007/06/unplugging-rctv-analyzing-aftermath.html

For those who may be unfamiliar with McChesney, he is the leading academic voice against corporate media in the United States. But he’s a late-comer when it comes to Latin America. So, he’s brought along co-author Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research to give him some heft internationally.

Their article arguing for the RCTV shutdown hinges on three main arguments, which are mostly correct. But their final point veers off to repeat almost word for word the stand of the Chavez government, that RCTV can establish a cable or satellite network and that Venezuela has better conditions for free expression now than even the United States.

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12. October 2009 by admin.

 
From one of the groups connected to Robert Mcchesney’s Free Press and the net neutrality movement, an attempt to justify government regulations of the media, government control, on the premise that corporate involvement in the news media is censorship, but somehow the government will be completely benign..

http://www.mediafreedominternational.org/2009/09/21/analysis-of-project-censored-are-we-a-left-leaning-conspiracy-oriented-organization/

Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization?

By Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

—Frederick Douglass

Critics of Project Censored often declare that we are a left-leaning organization. This is an interesting claim, given that over 200 faculty and students from multiple disciplines and political orientations work with Project Censored each year.  Over 1,500 students have been trained in media research techniques since we began in 1976, and it would be hard to find a more mainstream, mostly Californian college student body.

Critical thinking and fact finding are not left leaning, they are the basis of democracy, and we proudly stand for the maximization of informed participatory democracy at the lowest possible level in society.  To this end, Project Censored supports social justice and media democracy in action.

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12. October 2009 by admin.

Robert Mcchesney pitches for bailout of far left newspapers like NYtimes and LA times…

http://pmwarner.blogspot.com/2009/05/robert-mcchesney-on-death-and-life-of.html

The New York Times and Washington Post have become the latest newspapers to announce plans to downsize their staffs. As papers across the country continue to fold or downsize, policy officials and experts are contemplating a series of proposals to help newspapers stay afloat. On Capitol Hill, Democratic Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland has introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act. Meanwhile, in an article in The Nation magazine titled “The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers,” media activists Robert McChesney and John Nichols are proposing a multi-part journalism economic stimulus package.
Guest:

Robert McChesney, Co-founder of Free Press. Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His article “The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers” appears in The Nation magazine.

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