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Robert McChesney

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.

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

So it’s a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can’t get media at all to make your case. And that’s where cases tend to be made politically.

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

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?

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

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

Robert McChesney

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

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

Robert McChesney

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

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you’re on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you’re on the right.

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

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

Robert McChesney

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.

– Robert McChesney

Robert 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 most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

– Robert McChesney

Robert McChesney

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

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