THE PRESIDENT AND COFOUNDER of Free Press, a national nonpartisan organization dedicated to media reform, Robert McChesney is one of the foremost scholars of media economics in the United States. For ten years he hosted Media Matters, a radio call-in show in Central Illinois that discussed the relationship between politics and media. McChesney (left) most recently published Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex Is Destroying America (2013) with journalist and Free Press cofounder John Nichols (right).

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