An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political equals, they to have to have the information and tools so they can actually be… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
