professor mcchesney, what's your thesis in "digital disconnect"? >> guest: my thesis is that the internet began with extraordinary promise for democratizing society, making the world a far better place. and some of the promise has come true, but much of it has been turned on its head largely due to commercial pressures that have changed the course of the internet dramatically and unless we arrest those pressures and redirect the internet, the future is not necessarily going to be as glorious as we once thought. >> host: you talk about the need to look at the internet through political economy. what do you mean? >> guest: i think that the problem we have when we've studied the internet in most of the books that have been written about it -- many of which are outstanding -- downplay the importance of capitalism and the relationship of capitalism to democracy. they put technology as sort of having a superpower over society. i think we need to sort of bring it back in and look at the classical relationship of capitalism and democracy and see how the in

. >> host: robert mcchesney, there are a couple of for-profit groups, "the wall street journal" and "the new york times", if people want to read the products, is it not fair that they should pay for it? >> guest: the logic makes sense. as a scholar, i am not a shareholder of "the wall street journal" or "the new york times." the explosion of boston marathon a couple of weeks ago, and i think that is how information is in a free society. we should be encouraging this distribution are not putting up walls to pay to get inside. and this supported journalism for the rest of us and at best it is going to stop this of the outlets. >> host: you think we will start to go down rather than looking at the broad spectrum. >> guest: it's not really what i am concerned with in the book is so much less than it used to be. they are the ones that jumped out when they talk about partisan journalism today. a great advance is that it brought a tone to the news that was more partisan that it is a pretty reliable indicator. so in terms of economics, what fox news did brilliantly is that you don't have a re

professor mcchesney is also an author. here is his most recent book called "digital disconnect of capitalism." what this your pieces in a digital is connect? internetsis is the began with extraordinary promise for democratizing society and making the world a far better place. some of it has come true. much of the has been turned on its head largely due to commercial pressures that is change the course dramatically. internet,redirect the the future is not necessarily going to be as glorious. >> in your book you talk about the need to look at the internet through elliptical economy. what do you mean? >> i think the problem with we downplaysinternet capitalism. that technology has a super power over society. i think we need to bring it back in and look at the connection and see how the internet fits into that and get a sense of how the internet has developed. that is what i mean. examples of how you think it has turned away from democracy. look at the beginning founder ofrnet, the netscape as well the entrepreneurs investing

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