Media critic and “Media Matters” radio host Robert McChesney will speak on “Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy” at Buffalo State College Tuesday, March 30, 2004, at 7:30 p.m., in Bulger Communication Center North.

McChesney has written or edited eight books on media and politics, including Telecommunications, Mass Media and Democracy: The Battle for the Control of U.S. Broadcasting, Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy and Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times.

McChesney has also written 120 journal articles and 140 newspaper pieces, magazine articles and book reviews, has been the subject of more than sixty published profiles and interviews and has made more than 550 radio and television appearances.

A research professor in the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, McChesney earned his Ph.D. in communications at the University of Washington in 1989.

The event is presented by the Buffalo State College Communication Department, Niagara University Communication Studies Department and by the Buffalo Coalition for Progressive Media.

Admission is free and is open to the public.

For further information regarding this event contact Dr. Michael I. Niman, in the Buffalo State College Communication Department at (716) 878-3795.