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..

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….

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….

Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even elimina….

Even if someone wanted a purely free-market, competitive media system, it would require extensive government regulation to set up those markets. All ….

So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out….

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating..

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change an….

The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers ….