35 Quotes by Robert McChesney

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.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

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.

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

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

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 anything else for the better in this country.

And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.