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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.
- Robert McChesney
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So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.
- Robert McChesney
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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
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
- Robert McChesney
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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
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Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.
- Robert McChesney
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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
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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
- Robert McChesney
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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.
- Robert McChesney
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
- Robert McChesney
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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.
- Robert McChesney
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