McChesney's critique and Current Campaigns

McChesney talks about how news outlets and media are driven be profit motives. He also talks about how media can be driven by the deregulated by their ownership. He also talks about how corporate media will set us free. Todays campaigns are also aiding the profit motives. They pay news outlets money to run ads and reports on news for their campaign. Political campigns are also associated with certain news companies. for example Fox news is usually associated with the GOP and MSNBC is usually associated with Democrates. The media is responsible for airing the negative campaign aids the the candidates release. So The current political campaigns are very similar to the critiques that McChesney is discussing in chapter 1.