In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in… — 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 it. It's nowhere near the standard it needs to be for our society, and we've got to make a commitment to rethink the system altogether. You know, just giving more money to what exists on PBS… — 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, public systems tend to be the most popular stations in the countries. In some countries like Norway and Germany, public stations are, if anything, more popular than ever as people see what Rupert Murdoch's got in… — 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, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that… — 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 the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists… — 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 media companies are based on the grant of explicit government monopoly privileges and licenses, or franchises, or subsidies. The government didn't come in after the system was in place, it built the system in the first… — 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 Image
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