Robert McChesney
Robert McChesney
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When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
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This White House has a knack for evading prosecution. The only way for justice to be served is for thousands to stand up and demand that charges stick against an administration that has set aside more than a quarter billion dollars to push propaganda on the public.
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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
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It's clear that there is a highly corrupt relationship between some journalists and those in positions of power, ... This indictment shows the corrupt nature of the press system and its linkage to power.
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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?
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The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.
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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 people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.
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So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
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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 of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.
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Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
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Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.