Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All our largest media companies are based on the grant of explicit government monopoly privileges and licenses, or franchises,… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-page… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture. — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control. — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself. — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
The current public television and radio system in the United States, while it's better than nothing, that's about the best you can say about… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
If you go to go to countries in Europe or Asia or even Canada, even with all the Internet and cable TV and satellite,… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story,… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All our largest… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
In the last two years we've seen a sea change in the United States on media issues. Two years ago, people would have read… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
Now, the one thing that's clear is that we need nonprofit, noncommercial media - not just broadcasting - more than ever in the United… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
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