"When the government picked companies and gave them……" — Robert Waterman McChesney
"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 picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
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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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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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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
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