Robert W. Mccasney, who warned the company media control, dies at 72
Robert W. McCasney, an influential leftist media critic who claimed that the company property was negative for American journalism and that the billionaires of the Silicon Valley who dominated the online information were a threat to democracy, died on March 25 at his house in Madison, WIS. He was 72 years old.The cause was glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer, said his wife, Ingner.Professor Mccasney was founded on both in the academic world - he had a doctorate of research. In communications and taught in universities-e in ink journalism: he was the founder of The Rocket, a music magazine of Seattle who reviewed Nirvana's first single.His main thesis, expressed in more than a dozen books and dozens of articles and interviews, was that the media owned by corporate ownership were excess...