Robert McChesney on "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America"

Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with professor and author Robert McChesney about "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America," which he co-wrote with John Nichols. "Dollarocracy" concludes that the money-and-media election complex does not just endanger electoral politics; it poses a challenge to the DNA of American democracy itself.

Robert McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author or editor of 23 books. His work has been translated into 30 languages. He is the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization. In 2008, the Utne Reader listed McChesney among their “50 visionaries who are changing the world.”