Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes

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• You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it…
• Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
• The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio;…
• The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
• Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and…
• As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
• When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
• When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was…
• But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
• But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
• Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
• So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
• The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
• Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media…
• And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their…
• Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have…
• If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to…
• If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms…
• One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average…
• So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort…

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