Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Competition, Stations

• If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very important to you that you be on fairly good terms with the local affiliates in the largest market in your area. I mean you don't want to antagonize them.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Mean, Race

• A big part of my book deals with the caliber of journalism. Our journalism in general is deplorable, and on elections in particular it's very ineffectual. There are a lot of problems, a lot of them having to do with to problems within the professional code of journalism, which defines its role as the regurgitation of what people in power say. Another big problem is that we allow people with money to basically buy what's talked about in campaigns through running TV ads.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, Book, People

  "The Problem of the Media". Interview With Anthony Ha, www.motherjones.com. October 4, 2004.

• 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.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Running, People, Office

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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