The societal ramifications of the death of local journalism in the United States are as widespread as they are depressingly predictable. As Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols recently wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review, “It is not simply that functional self-government is impossible without credible journalism with all that forebodes; it is that local newspapers have provided the social glue that brought communities to life, as places where people see themselves as participating in a joint enterprise with people they know and understand and care about. That is disintegrating.â€
In this segment of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with McChesney and Nichols about how the slow death of America’s journalism ecosystem in the digital age has corresponded with the disintegration of the social fabric of the American republic. They also discuss McChesney and Nichols’s proposal of a Local Journalism Initiative and how it could improve life for communities around the country. Robert W. McChesney is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. John Nichols writes for The Nation and the Capital Times of Madison, Wisconsin. Along with cofounding Free Press with Josh Silver and Kimberly Longey in 2003, McChesney and Nichols have written several books on media and politics together, including most recently The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution That Will Begin the World Again.
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Why in Europe we remain poor against the riches and in America not? You have really more ghettos, hellholes, guns and homeless people than Europe. I live in Italy (the poorest of the richest in Europe) and seems like heaven if you comparate with USA and it's not heaven at all (if you comparating poor people of course)
Jan 6th people were there to support a legal process of accountability to recount and inspect closely some suspicious voting practices.
History and American society… Journalism and media… And government have a history of Mental Health problems. These are the real facts (slavery and lynchings and Jim Crow and a failed civil rights legislation and reparations) … America's mental health problem… Mental health problem… Enough said.
Keep people stupid. Keep them isolated. Feed them slogans and jingoism. Point them at a scapegoat.
Just look at NPR and PBS descended into entertainment news….flooded with Koch funding.
young people who become journalists come from prosporous homes and clueless about working class and horrific inequality. And journalism curricula do not require studying humanities, history etc. the focus is on knots and bolts of producing an article. Anti-intellectual culture in America is alarming. Plus, socialising with politicians creates a hesitancy to be critical and investigative.
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AND YOU RACIST LEFTIST THE SKIN COLOR WARRIORS ITS FUNNY 3 WHITE PRIVILEGE RACE HUSTLERS ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LYING LEFT AND HOW THEY CORRUPTED OUR NEWS MEDIA GOVERNMENT AND ELECTIONS ITS DISGUSTING
Most of mainstream media are government indoctrination vessels. They tell you what their allowed to. With social media we get it all right here and there rarely any filters. I appreciate that kind of realness.
Julian Assange is Australian citizen and Journalist. He is also USA's very own Jamal khashoggi except he has been dismembered in psyche and spirit over 11 years. Freedom of speech for the press…my foot.
I like the overall message here but I find it ironic that blue sweater guy is talking about misinformation when he's spreading baseless misinformation about the Jan 6th contributors "still not being held to account"
Talk about spreading misinformation and not doing the most basic of homework that would tell you for the last year the doj has been relentlessly pursuing and punishing those found to be involved. Also what world are you living in where there are not ads on online Publications?? Every YouTube video in every publication on the internet has ad buyers behind it.
It's just so funny that if anybody took 5 minutes to actually research this stuff it would tell you that you're completely off base. By not doing so all you are doing is spreading the widespread propaganda and misinformation you are preaching about here. I mean guys come on get in touch with reality here
Could start by shaving nostril hairs
“People that want to get involved do not have the means to get involvedâ€.
Independent press guarantees democracy when holding the powerful to account. Once it's gone the door is open for all sorts of regimes oppressing the truth and overall people.
If you want to enforce the law and you feed people unclean food and dirty clothes, the law and its owner is in the toilet.
Don't save it.
It's killing our REPUBLIC!!!!
one cannot save something which does not exist … This hoodwink hope speculation mass media mud is finished!
The powerful people behind the 1-6 event was the FBI.
Both of my parents feel the news they watch over-the-air are unbias. I watch it with them and feel sick because they hole heartedly believe them. Hard to get any sort of truth from the news. The report China is doing good, report the police are all ways doing good. Everyone can be bad and should be held accountable.
This is hard to move forward with all this talking of democracy. The group of men that founded this country hated the idea of a democracy. A democracy is 51% ruling over the 49%.
God Save The Republic