All Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes
- 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… Barrier
- Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. Appalling
- 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;… Advertiser
- The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters. Association
- 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… Actually Buy
- As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society. Advertising
- 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. Allocates
- 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… Angeles
- But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media. Attitude
- But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. Campaign
- Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it. Created
- So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license. Competition
- The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves. 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… Any
- 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… Airwaves
- 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… Advertiser
- 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… Association
- 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… Affiliates
- 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… 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… Case
- So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in… Been
- The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and… Attention
- The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests… Ago