In the last two years we've seen a sea change in the United States on media issues. Two years ago, people would have read this, then opened the window on the ledge of the 18th floor and jumped. They would have said, "Okay, it's over, there's nothing I can do, it's just getting worse." But in the last two years, what we've seen is that millions of Americans have gotten aware of the issue, they've organized on it, they've risen up, and we're seeing the beginnings of a burgeoning media reform movement across this country.

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.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

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

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

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 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.