"The public gets not one penny from them……" — Robert Waterman McChesney
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
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Robert Waterman McChesney
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23 Quotes by Robert Waterman McChesney
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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…
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Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever…
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The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's…
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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
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Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some…
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As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in…
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When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the…
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When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New…
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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
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So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
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More Airwaves Quotes
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although…
— Dave Barry
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Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating…
— Tony Campolo
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You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was…
— Jimmy Webb
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It's all magic to me. Country to punk rock, all of it. Chopin to Kurt Cobain. But it always all…
— James Marsters
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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would…
— Tony Campolo
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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound…
— Julius Lester
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A babble of words that no one understands now fills the airwaves, and language loses all meaning as we sink…
— Gore Vidal
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Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the…
— John Ringo
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There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.
— Joe Elliott
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I've never... when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock…
— John Lahr
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And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the…
— Robert Waterman McChesney
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