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Conflict of Interest[edit]

Editor "The Mack Attack" is the subject of and major contributor to this article in contravention on Wikipedia guidelines. Be aware, we will have to carefully revisit the article. Capitalismojo (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

what an unholy conflicted piece of shit that article was. Will have to work on rebuilding a real article on the guy. Jytdog (talk) 04:32, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You made a good start. As they say "brevity is the soul of wit." Capitalismojo (talk) 04:36, 2 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

BLP discussion[edit]

Here: Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Robert_W._McChesney Jytdog (talk)

Copyright problem removed[edit]

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: Robert W. McChesney, "The Struggle for Democratic Media: Lessons from the North and from the Left" in The International Political Economy of Communication, p 13. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)

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