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.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

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.

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

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

Very rarely are you going to see the large shareholder or CEO of a corporation march into a newsroom and say, "Cover this story, don't cover that." It's a much more subtle process. The professional code adapts, but what we try to see, is how commercial and corporate pressure shape both the professional code and the sorts of things that are considered legitimate journalism and illegitimate journalism.