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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."

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"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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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Interviews were invented to make journalism less passive. Instead of waiting for something to happen, journalists ask someone what should or could happen."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"So sad "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior" the series ended open and it was made in 2011 and it ended in 2011!"

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"In a society where dirt sells, for every good story told as it is, you will hear the whole of that day's 10 bad stories sensationalized; although in reality, it could be that 100 good deeds happened that day which went unsung."

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Robert McChesney
"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 McChesney
"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 McChesney
"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 McChesney
"The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention."

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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."

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

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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."

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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."

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Robert McChesney
"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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