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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

[The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full…

— Amy Goodman

There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to…

— Montel Williams

What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more…

— Barry Diller

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on…

— David Attenborough

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if…

— Anonymous

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name,…

— Anonymous

By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that…

— Harry A. Blackmun

For many decades - and this was reinforced by the broadcast networks' standards-and-practices department - bad guys on TV had to get their comeuppance,…

— Vince Gilligan

When I was young, there was only one TV channel, sponsored by the government, and it only broadcast things like what the leader had…

— Mo Ibrahim

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

People pay their licence fee in this country because people believe that we should have public service broadcast programming. Of course, there are lots…

— Grant Shapps