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

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.

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

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.

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.

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.