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

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

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.

Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.

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

An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political equals, they to have to have the information and tools so they can actually be participants. That's liberal democracy 101.

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