If you would like to get in touch with MCM, or have MCM as a speaker at your school (or any other suitable event), please email him at markcrispinmiller@gmail.com.
Mark Crispin Miller’s topics include:
- The history of news in the United States, and the slow death of the mainstream press
- Why the US has the worst news system in the world (among developed nations)
- Misunderstandings of the First Amendment
- The rise and fall of advertising
- The story of the Marlboro Man
- The Godfather, Chinatown and other cinematic masterpieces of the Seventies
- Violence on the screen
- The history of propaganda
- The myth of “liberal bias” in the media, and the major stories that do not get covered
- Corporate media ownership, and the need for media reform
- The victories of the Christian right (even under Obama)
- How US presidents have used the media
- 9/11 and the notion of “conspiracy theory”
- The Gulf War, “Mission Accomplished” and other propaganda masterpieces
- Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and the legacy of Richard Nixon
- The history of vote suppression and election fraud in the United States (especially since 2000) and the need for real electoral reform