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

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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…

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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'…

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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…

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney

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…

- Robert Waterman Mcchesney