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

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

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

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

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

Coverage of Iraq has plummeted, because people in power no longer want to talk about it suddenly. Journalists should be over there demanding front-page coverage, lead-story coverage every day. They should be demanding that no politician running for federal office can go to bed until they say what the hell they're going to do about Iraq and what how accountable they are for it.

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