By now, the corporations that dominate our media, like alcoholic fat cats, treat this situation as theirs by right... Their concept of a diversity of…

- Ben Bagdikian

The safest way to ensure diversity of opinion is diverse ownership. But this ideal has been sacrificed by our government.

- Ben Bagdikian

Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to de…

- Ben Bagdikian

Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is…

- Ben Bagdikian

In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republ…

- Ben Bagdikian