Robert McChesney Creates and I Report

I'm asking all of you if you know what American democracy is? Of course we do right? We live in one! OR DO WE? Merriam Webster, our favorite dictionary provides a basic definition of a democracy: "a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections." Hmm! and what happens when everyone who cares about these elections cares nothing about democracy, and everything about capitalism. Capitalism is not democracy. But, it seems as if we are building a culture that fears critisizing capitalism. No one is debating it, no one seems to care of the consequences of capitalism held in greedy hands. Wake up!

According to Robert McChesney, acclaimed scholar and researcher, whom I have come to truly admire, A ParticipatoryDemocracy requires communication and commercial journalism in the United States fail to provide the groundwork for an informed citizenry.

Corporate Media cares about profits, and thats about it! And, Corporate media doesnt give the public interest a second thought; the public blinded by commercialism, isnt paying attention to the media stomping on thier rights. Media monopolies feed the public what they want them to hear, and could care less about what you want to hear! Broadcast Television works for investors, and could care less about the public making it even harder for a media reform to build. Broadcast Television is everywhere the public is; but a media reform lies hidden struggling to grab an audience while competing with television. This is where the World Wide Web comes in, and documentary film as media reformers greatest tools!

According to McChesney, "The implications of the global order for political culture are mostly negative. Capitalism's two inherent and negative traits for democracy--class stratification and the demise of civic virtue in the face of commercial values--are enhanced in the new global regime. There is nothing short of a wholesale assault on the very notion of democracy, as the concept of people newsgathering, debating, and devising policy has been supremely truncated..."

The United States is in the midst of a communication revolution, but the television isnt going to tell us that! But Robert McChesney and other reformers will. Wake up Amercia, and stand up for your democratic rights! Fascism doesnt just happen it builds while nobody's paying attention. And guess what: NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION!