Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there… — 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… — 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… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in… — Robert Waterman McChesney Copy Share Image
The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service… — 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
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