Explore Quotes by 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.

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.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

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 then take some chances and have some fun.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

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; in fact it pays the bills.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

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 is if you're on the right.