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14. There was a radio show years ago called "Media Matters"...

Wed Sep 24, 2025, 12:56 PM

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...hosted by the late UIUC professor Robert McChesney. It was one of the first shows that I recall also being available as a podcast. IIRC, one of the shows was a speech by McChesney on the history of the mass media, including the experience of the Allied forces in the aftermath of WWII. One of the first things that was done in the postwar period was to break up the huge media monopolies which had been allowed to accumulate, both in Europe and Japan.

McChesney discussed post-WWII history; how one of the first things the Allies did was break up the media monopolies of the Axis powers, arguing that media concentration aids and abets fascism. He further argued that we need a taste of our own medicine. And in fact, we used to have some pretty good laws and regulations about media concentration, most of which have been repealed.

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