ElectrojcrApr 13, 2025

In the mid-1990's when he was mostly writing about "legacy mass media" he recognized the Internet pretty quickly was going to be a more effective tool of control than TV, radio, and newspapers.

Though, from #cleveland, you won't read about #McChesney in any local press, honestly surprised the NYT wrote about him (though they cannot resist doing a "both-sides" with a shout-out to charlatan Horowitz).

Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1._U4.u4Mg.LcB9yjz13U3s

Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72

In over a dozen books, he explored the failures of journalism and the internet, blaming capitalism and calling for the nationalization of Facebook and Google.

The New York Times
bs2Sep 29, 2022
> #McChesney points out, "the criticism of out-of-control #technology is in large part a critique of out-of-control #commercialism. The loneliness, #alienation, and unhappiness sometimes ascribed to the #Internet are also associated with a #marketplace gone wild."
Discourse about the Internet often proceeds as if digital technology has some kind of mind or will of its own. It does not.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/digital-disconnect_b_2971464
#NormonSolomon on #RobertMcChesney #DigitalDisconnect
Digital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet

We have a profound, far-reaching fight on our hands, at a crossroads leading toward democracy or corporate monopoly. The future of humanity is at stake.

HuffPost