Re: Take Back the Media

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Subject: Re: Take Back the Media
From: Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 17:42:10 -0500

On Saturday, August 2, 2003 at 22:27:09 (GMT) bgramlich@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
>I just visited takebackthemedia.com for the first time, and among other things it raises one question for me. Instead of taking back the media, shouldn't we be taking it over? Was the media ever the voice of the people? To take it back implies that it once was yours, did the common man ever control the media?

Way back, perhaps before the Radio Act of 1929.

>In this line, are there any good marxist histories of the media in print?

See Robert McChesney's work on this topic, Telecommunications, Mass
Media & Democracy, also his later Rich Media, Poor Democracy.  Good
stuff, not "marxist".

Bill

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