From The Tyee, October 29, 2007
News Media Revolt: Canada Next?
Activist scholar Robert McChesney rallies growing movement.
Journalism faces a crisis around the world and unless it's fixed, society is in big trouble, American scholar and media activist Robert McChesney says.
"The market's not going to solve the problem.... The technology's not going to rescue us."
Great journalism requires resources, institutional support, well-paid journalists and competition, McChesney told an audience at the Simon Fraser University downtown campus Saturday.
Creating institutions that can produce great journalism is going to take "enlightened, engaged, creative policy-making," he said.
"Short of that, we'll never be a free society."
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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
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