Robert W McChesney
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Journal Articles & Monographs

2003. "Class and Communication: A Few Observations from the Heart of the Classless Society." Film International.

2003. "Theses on Media Deregulation." Media, Culture & Society, Volume 25, Number 1, pp. 167-175.

2002. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "The Imperial Presidency and the Campaign to Invade Iraq." Monthly Review, Vo. 54, No. 7, December.

2002. "The Place of Politics." The Boston Review, Summer, pp. 12-13.

2002. Robert W. McChesney & Dan Schiller, "The Political Economy of International Communications: Foundations for the Emerging Global Debate over Media Ownership and Regulation." Paper prepared for the UNRISD Programme on Information Technologies and Social Development as part of UNRISD background work for the World Summit on the Information Society, June. Available online.

2002. "Thank the Lord, It's a War to End All Wars É Or, How I Learned to Suspend Critical Judgment and Love the Bomb." Cultural Studies <-> Critical Methodologies, Vol. 2, No. 2 (May): pp. 166-168.

2002. Robert W. McChesney & Ben Scott, "Upton Sinclair and the Contradictions of Capitalist Journalism," Monthly Review, Vol. 54, No. 1 (May): pp. 1-14. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0502rwmscott.htm

2002. *"Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism," EDucate! A Quarterly on Education and Development (Pakistan), Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 40-42.

2002. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "The New Face of Capitalism: Slow Growth, Excess Capital, and a Mountain of Debt." Monthly Review, Vo. 53, No. 11, April, pp. 1-14. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0402editr.htm

2002. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "U.S. Military Bases and Empire." Monthly Review, Vo. 53, No. 10, March, pp. 1-16. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0302editr.htm

2002. "The U.S. News Media and World War III." Journalism: Theory Practice Criticism, Vol. 4, No. 1 (March), pp. 14-21.

2002. "The Zillionth Time as Tragedy." Television and New Media, Vol. 3, No. 2, May, pp. 133-137.

2002. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "Transition to What?." Monthly Review, Vo. 53, No. 8, January, pp. 24-28.

2001. "Global Media for Global Control." EDucate! A Quarterly on Education and Development, Vol. 1, No.2, October-December, pp. 46-49.

2001. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "After the Attack É The War on Terrorism." Monthly Review, Vo. 53, No. 6., November. http://www.monthlyreview.org/1101edit.htm

2001. "Radio and the Responsibility of Radio Scholars," Journal of Radio Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Winter): pp. v-viii.

2001. "Det globale media, nyliberalsime og imperialism." Rode Fane (Norway), Number 3, pp. 18-25. (Translated by Birger Thurn-Paulsen)

2001. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), ""Prisons and ExecutionsÑthe U.S. Model: A Historical Introduction." Monthly Review, Vol. 53, No. 3 (July-August), pp. 1-18. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0701editr.htm  

2001. "Power to the Producers." Boston Review, Volume 26, No. 3-4, Summer. http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR26.3/mcchesney.html

2001. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "A Prizefighter for Capitalism: Paul Krugman vs. the Quebec Protestors." Monthly Review, Vol. 53, No. 2 (June), pp. 1-5.  http://www.monthlyreview.org/0601editr.htm

2001. "Das Internet und die Medienriesen." Das Argument, 42 Jahrgang Heft 5/6, pp. 687-700. http://www.linksnet.de/artikel.cfm?id=204

2001. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "The New Economy: Myth and Reality." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 11 (April). pp. 1-15. http://www.monthlyreview.org/0401edit.htm

2001. "Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 10 (March), pp. 1-19. http://www.monthlyreview.org/301rwm.htm

2001. "Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times." The Long Term View, Vol. 5, No. 2, Summer, pp. 46-58.

2001. "Herb Schiller, Presente!" Television & New Media, Vol. 2, No.1 (February): pp. 45-50.

2001. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff, Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "The Nader Campaign and the Future of US Left Electoral Politics." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 9 (February), pp. 1-22. http://www.monthlyreview.org/201editr.htm

2000. "Journalism, Democracy, ... and Class Struggle." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 6 (November), pp. 1-15. http://www.monthlyreview.org/1100rwm.htm Also available in Norwegian at: http://www.akp.no/arkiv/kk/chesney.htm

2000. "Campaign Spending and the First Amendment: When private money talks, the rich speak loudest." Media Studies Journal, Fall, pp. 8-13.

2000. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff , Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections" Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 5 (October), pp. 1-13. http://www.monthlyreview.org/1000edit.htm

2000. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff , Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "Socialism: A Time to Retreat?" Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 4 (September), pp. 1-7. http://www.monthlyreview.org/900editr.htm

2000. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff , Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "Introduction: Toward a New Internationalism." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July-August), pp. 1-11. http://www.monthlyreview.org/700editr.htm

2000. "The Political Economy of Communication and the Future of the Field." Media, Culture & Society, Vol. 22, pp. 109-116.

2000. The Editors (John Bellamy Foster, Harry Magdoff , Paul M. Sweezy, and Robert W. McChesney), "Working Families and the Burden of Debt." Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 1 (May), pp. 1-11.

1999. "The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy." The Guild Practicioner, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Fall): pp. 219-233. (Earlier version published on Monthly Review, Vol. 49, No. 10, (March 1998), pp. 17-34.)

1999. "Graham Spry and the Future of Public Broadcasting." Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, pp. 25-47. http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/BackIssues/24.1/mcchesn.pap.html

1999. "Noam Chomsky and the Struggle Against Neoliberalism." Monthly Review, Vol. 50, No. 11 (April), pp. 40-47. http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/econ/chmsky99.htm

1999. "Media Politics and the U.S. Left." Monthly Review, Vol. 50, No. 9 (February), pp. 32-41. http://www.monthlyreview.org/299mcches.htm

1998. "The Political Economy of Global Media." Media and Development, Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 3-8. http://www.oneworld.org/wacc/media/mcchesney.htm

1998. "Making Media Democratic." Boston Review, Vol. 23, No. 3-4 (Summer): pp. 4-10, 20. http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.3/mcchesney.html

1998. "Market Media Muscle." The Canadian Forum, Vol. 76, No. 867, (March): pp. 17-22.

1998. "The New Theology of the First Amendment: Class Privilege Over Democracy." Monthly Review, Vol. 49, No. 10, (March), pp. 17-34.

1998. "Labour and the Struggle for Democratic Communication." Labour & Society International Discussion Papers, Number 3, March 1998, pp. 1-26.

1998. "What is the Political Economy of Communication?" Democratic Communique, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring): pp. 3-15.

1997. "Whither Communication?" Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol. 41: pp. 566-572.

1997. "The Mythology of Commercial Media and the Contemporary Crisis of Public Broadcasting / La Mythologie des Medias Commerciaux et la Crise Contemporaine de la Radiodiffusion Publique." Montreal: Graham Spry Fund for Public Broadcasting.

1996. "Communication for the Hell of It: The Triviality of U.S. Broadcasting History." Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Vol. 40, No. 4, (Fall): pp. 540-552.

1996. "The Global Struggle for Democratic Communication." Monthly Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (July-August), pp. 1-20.

1996. "Is There Any Hope for Cultural Studies?" Monthly Review, Vol. 47, No. 10 (March): Review of the Month. pp. 1-18. (Edited and reprinted in The Democratic Communique, Vol. 14, No. 2 (May 1996): pp. 12-16; Translated and Reprinted in Voces Y Culturas, Barcelona.)

1996. "The Internet and U.S. Communication Policy-making in Historical and Critical Perspective," Journal of Communication, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Winter): pp. 98-124. Also published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 1, No. 4. http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue4/mcchesney.html

1995. "Public Broadcasting in the Age of Communication Revolution," Monthly Review, Vol. 47, No. 7 (December): Review of the Month, pp. 1-19.

1994. "Radical Scholarship in the Academy: The View from Communications," Monthly Review, Vol. 45, No. 8 (January): pp. 27-35.

1993. "Critical Communication Research at the Crossroads." In Journal of Communication, special double issue on "The Future of the Field," Vol. 43, No. 4 (Autumn): pp. 98-104.

1992. "The Debate Over Public Policy and the Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1935." In Business and Economic History, Second Series, Volume 21, pp. 171-181.

1992. Labor and the Marketplace of Ideas: WCFL and the Battle for Labor Radio Broadcasting, 1928-1934. Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication: Journalism Monographs, No. 134, August 1992.

1992. "Off Limits: An Inquiry into the Lack of Debate Over the Ownership, Structure and Control of the Mass Media in U.S. Political Life." Communication, Vol. 13: pp. 1-19.

1992. "Media and Democracy: The Emergence of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, 1927-1935." Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Spring): pp. 34-40.

1991. "Free Speech and Democracy: Louis G. Caldwell, the American Bar Association, and the Debate Over the Free Speech Implications of Broadcast Regulation, l928-l938." The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. XXXV (October): pp. 351-392.

1991. "An Almost Incredible Absurdity for a Democracy." Journal of Communication Inquiry, 15:1 (Winter): pp. 89-114.

1991. "Press-Radio Relations and the Emergence of Network, Commercial Broadcasting in the United States, l930-l935." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 11, No. 1: pp. 41-57.

1990. "The Battle for the U.S. Airwaves, l928-l935." Journal of Communication 40 (Autumn): pp. 29-57.

1989. "The Political Economy of the Mass Media: An Interview with Edward S. Herman." Monthly Review, Vol. 40, No. 8, January. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/3761/ed.html, http://monkeyfist.com/ChomskyArchive/misc/ed_html

1988. "Franklin Roosevelt, His Administration, and the Communications Act of l934." In American Journalism, Vol. 5, No. 4: pp. 204-230.

1988. "Crusade Against Mammon: Father Harney, WLWL, and the Debate Over Radio in the 1930s." In Journalism History, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter l987: pp. 118-130.


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