Robert McChesney on The Campbell Conversations

WRVO | By Grant Reeher

Published January 12, 2014 at 4:07 PM EST

Robert McChesney is a well-known communications professor at the University of Illinois. His most recent book, co-authored with John Nichols, is Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America. In this conversation with host Grant Reeher, McChesney describes how money’s role in politics has changed in recent years, why the problem posed by money’s effects on politics runs so deep, and the commercial media’s vested interest in keeping the campaign finance spigot as open as possible.

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Grant Reeher

Grant Reeher is a Political Science Professor and Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship. He is also creator, host and program director of “The Campbell Conversations” on WRVO, a weekly regional public affairs program featuring extended in-depth interviews with regional and national writers, politicians, activists, public officials, and business professionals.

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