[P2P-F] Fwd: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights

Sun May 1 20:10:11 CEST 2011

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From: Bob Mcchesney <rwmcchesney at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:37 PM
Subject: Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights
To: "rwmcches-illinois.edu" <rwmcches at illinois.edu>

 Dear Friend, Acquaintance, Relative, or Person-who-somehow-ended-up in my
address book,

I am writing to you to announce the publication by The New Press of a brand
new book I co-edited with Victor Pickard, *Will the Last Reporter Please
Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix
It*.

The book includes 32 new essays on the crisis of journalism in the United
States, written by leading scholars, journalists, activists and
policymakers. The essays cover a broad range of approaches to the topic and
viewpoints and offer an equally broad range of prospective solutions. The
pieces are all written since 2008 and mostly in 2010, and include
considerable ground-breaking research and analysis. A few were published in
magazines or journals, but most were commissioned and written specifically
for this volume. I have three essays in the book, two I wrote with John
Nichols, and another, on Walter Lippmann, I wrote specifically for this
book.

We have put together a Hall of Fame line-up. Since many of them are terrific
writers, the book is a great read. The contributors include (in alphabetical
order):

Craig Aaron * Bruce Ackerman * Eric Alterman * C. Edwin Baker * Yochai
Benkler * Rodney Benson * Frank Blethen * Ryan Blethen * Jessica Clark *
Mark Cooper * FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps * Geoffrey Cowan * Michael
X. Delli Carpini * Leonard Downie, Jr. * Thomas Frank * Todd Gitlin * Juan
Gonzalez * James T. Hamilton * Chris Hedges * Janine Jackson * Robert W.
McChesney * Laura McGann * Pamela Newkirk * John Nichols * Victor Pickard *
Shawn Powers * Michael Schudson * Clay Shirky * David Simon * Paul Starr *
Joseph Torres * Nikki Usher * Tracy Van Slyke * Matt Welch * David Westphal
* Bruce A. Williams

The New Press is a non-profit publisher in every sense of the term, so I am
assisting their publicity efforts by sending this email to you. If this does
not interest you, I apologize for the nuisance.

The first wave of reviews is already in. *Booklist* wrote: “This provocative
compilation provides a groundbreaking introduction to, and thought-provoking
evaluation of, the uncertain state of contemporary journalism. Bold,
meditative, engrossing, this is an indispensable guide for followers of
modern media.”

The *Library Journal* concluded: “Anyone concerned with the state of
journalism and the state of the union should read this thought-provoking
book.”

If you are interested in purchasing the book, please consider supporting
your local independent bookstore. In Madison, I support Rainbow Bookstore.
http://www.rainbowbookstore.org/

Here are links to two online sellers, which have more information on the
book as well:
 http://www.amazon.com/Will-Last-Reporter-Please-Lights/dp/1595585486

 http://www.powells.com/biblio/62-9781595585486-0

If you are concerned about the crisis in journalism, I think you will find
this book a must-read.

Thanks for your time,

Bob McChesney

PS--My dear friend and frequent co-author John Nichols has a new book out
from Verso called* The S Word: A Short History of an American
Tradition….Socialism*. It is a fantastic book that has received rave
reviews. Everyone I know who has picked up a copy has read it virtually in
one sitting it was so engrossing. That was my experience, too. Because John
has been so busy covering the Wisconsin 2011 uprising, he has not has the
opportunity to do the promotional work this book richly deserves.

http://www.amazon.com/Word-Short-History-American-Tradition-Socialism/dp/184467679X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303313481&sr=1-1

 http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781844676798-1

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