#w

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. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#competition #each #frequency #government #handful

Unfortunately, cancer is the number one killer of children in this country today, and it destroys not only these innocent victims, but their families as well. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#children #country #destroys #families #innocent

Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#basically #buy #buying #candidate #cover

Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#because #even #his #interested #less

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. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#basically #because #campaign #going #largest

If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#antagonize #area #fairly #good #good terms

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#both #ever #greatest #journalism #like

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#borrow #buy #chances #could #friends

One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#commercials #electronic #electronic media #hour #i

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

— Robert McChesney

#direct #direct result #existing #government #laws