John Nichols

The Money and Media Election Complex

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:09:14 -0500

Full article: The Nation
John Nichols and Robert W. McChesney
The money-and-media election complex has transformed longstanding problems into an existential crisis: we are about to lose the democratic promise of elections. It is hard to see how our cherished freedoms can then survive, except to the extent that they are trivial and unthreatening to those in power. What hangs in the balance is democracy itself, along with the promise of the American experiment.

20 Questions with Robert McChesney and John Nichols

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 19 May 2010 09:05:01 -0400

Full article: In These Times
As many small towns adapt to life without newspapers, the chorus of concerned citizens clamoring for action is growing louder. But what, exactly, can and should be done to save and sustain real reporting?

Citizens' News Vouchers: $200 for Everyone?

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:17:48 -0400

Full article: Reboot.FCC.Gov
Irene Wu
Would you get more of the news and information you want if the government let you direct $200 of taxpayer money toward your favorite media outlets? The goal of the voucher system would be to increase funding for public media that citizens want to see flourish without getting the government involved in evaluating the viewpoint of the media receiving the subsidy.

Who Should Pay for American Journalism?

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:52:02 -0400

Full article: Kojo Nnamdi Show
Did you know the Founding Fathers created "the free press" with American tax dollars? Avowed media reformers Robert McChesney and John Nichols discuss why the future of journalism may lie in revisiting our past.

Rebuilding Media

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:29:29 -0500

Full article: CampusProgress.org
Michael Corcoran
Often books about the state of media focus on how to tweak the economic model to save media we have. Two recently published books, however, look at ways to create media that is focused not on making journalism profitable again, but rather, on making journalism the valuable civic tool that is required for a functioning democracy.

Authors McChesney and Nichols on 'The Death and Life of American Journalism'

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:02:52 -0500

Full article: Open Media Boston
Dave Goodman
Newspapers like the Cincinnati Post, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Christian Science Monitor are going out of business or becoming on-line only publications. And what remains of commercial print, broadcast, and online news, according to authors Robert McChesney and John Nichols, tends to favor celebrity and scandal driven reporting.

The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:17:55 -0500

Full article: Democracy Now!
Robert McChesney and John Nichols, two leading advocates of the media reform movement, argue that journalism should be seen as a public good and that the government should help save American journalism by granting more subsidies to newspapers and media outlets.

McChesney and Nichols: $30 Billion to Save Journalism

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:43:45 -0500

Full article: Huffington Post
Christopher Lydon
Robert McChesney and John Nichols are grappling with the question: what would Thomas Jefferson do about the death of the American newspaper? Better, Jefferson said, to have newspapers without a government than to have government without newspapers. Yet here we are two centuries later, and the papers are disappearing. What is to sustain essential journalism in the digital age?

Fix for That Whole Dying-Media Thing

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:28:11 -0500

Full article: A.V. Club
Jason Albert
Even for those of us lumped in with the ever-changing mass called the media, the ubiquitous "the media is dying" storyline has worn a little thin. Not because it's inaccurate, but rather because it's probably time someone stepped up with some functional ideas instead of simply line-listing those entities no longer around.

The Death and Life of American Journalism

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:25:39 -0500

Full article: GRITtv
Everyone agrees that a free society requires a free press. But a free press without the resources to compensate those who gather and analyze information, and to distribute that information widely and in an easily accessible form, is like a seed without water or sunlight. So how do we save journalism?