But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control..

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 prot….

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class..

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe p….

If you go to go to countries in Europe or Asia or even Canada, even with all the Internet and cable TV and satellite, public systems tend to be the m….

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 it. It's….

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on soc….

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

You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over net….

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd..

A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in particular it's very ineffec….

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." I….

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy comme….

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticizati….

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

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

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the mos….

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 rig….

In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with publi….

An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political eq….

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ad….