When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competiti….

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media..

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself..

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants..

The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots ….

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996….

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or co….

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

So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the p….

Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-pa….