Rich Media, Poor Democracy

Rich Media, Poor Democracy

2003 · 30 min · Documentary

Robert McChesney lays the blame for the US's current state of affairs squarely at the doors of the corporate boardrooms of big media, which far from delivering on their promises of more choice and more diversity, have organized a system characterized by a lack of competition, homogenization of opinion and formulaic programming.

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