Robert Waterman McChesney Quotes About Journalism

Quotes about: Journalism

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Looks, News, Television

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

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Media, Fundamentals, Journalism

• 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.

• 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.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Trying, March, Journalism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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