Every day Quote by Robert Waterman McChesney

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now, the one thing that's clear is that we need nonprofit, noncommercial media - not just broadcasting - more than ever in the United…

— Robert Waterman McChesney