Robert W. McChesney

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1. Robert W. McChesney

   Author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series)

2. Noam Chomsky

   Author of The Chomsky Reader, Media Control (2nd ed): The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda, Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies

3. Michael Parenti

   Author of Democracy for the Few, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media, Dirty Truths

4. Alexander Cockburn

   Author of Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, The Politics of Anti-Semitism, Imperial Crusades: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia

5. Chalmers Johnson

   Author of Blowback, Second Edition: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire, The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

6. Ben H. Bagdikian

   Author of The Media Monopoly, The New Media Monopoly

7. Sheldon Rampton

   Author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq, Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing is Turning America Into a One-Party State

8. Edward S. Herman

   Author of Manufacturing Consent, Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda

9. David C Korten

   Author of When Corporations Rule the World, Globalizing Civil Society (Open Media Pamphlet Series, 4)

10. Chris Hedges

    Author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Death of the Liberal Class, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress

11. Howard Zinn

    Author of Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order (Radical 60s), Howard Zinn on History, The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian

12. Project Censored

    Author of Censored 2003 (Censored), Censored 2005: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored)

13. Christian Parenti

    Author of Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror

14. Nancy Snow

    Author of Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World, Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11

15. Ed Herman

    Author of The Global Media: The Missionaries of Global Capitalism (Media Studies)

16. Thomas Frank

    Author of One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler

17. John Nichols

    Author of Our Media, Not Theirs (Open Media Series)

18. William Blum

    Author of Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II-Updated Through 2003

19. Todd Gitlin

    Author of Media Unlimited : How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms our Lives, The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left

20. Jeremy Brecher

    Author of Global Village or Global Pillage (Second Edition): Economic Reconstruction From the Bottom Up, Globalization from Below