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Top 30 Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.”

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

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.”

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

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.”

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

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

4. “Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.”

5. “Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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?”

6. “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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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.”

8. “The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.”

9. “If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.”

10. “If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

11. “But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

13. “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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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “So the competition isn’t once you got the license, running the station; it’s getting the license.”

14. “So the competition isn’t once you got the license, running the station; it’s getting the license.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “But having said that, what’s happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.”

16. “But having said that, what’s happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “But having said that, there’s also a sea change in attitude towards media.”

17. “But having said that, there’s also a sea change in attitude towards media.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.”

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

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

21. “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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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

22. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

25. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn’t setting the terms of the competition.”

26. “When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn’t setting the terms of the competition.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Which is supposed to mean they’re doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.”

27. “Which is supposed to mean they’re doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

28. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.”

29. “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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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

30. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.”

31. “Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.”

32. “In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

33. “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.”

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Robert Waterman McChesney Quote: “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.”

34. “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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