Robert McChesney Quotes
Now, the one thing that's clear is that we need nonprofit, noncommercial media - not just broadcasting - more than ever in the United States. We don't need a purely nonprofit, noncommercial system, but we need a significant nonprofit, noncommercial system. Advertising-run media, profit-driven media, simply is not acceptable as the entirety of our media system. There's no defense for it.
McChesney, Robert W. The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Monthly Review Press, 2004.
Tsvangirai’s party had won the election of 2008, but the Dictator Robert Mugabe refused to relinquish power. Sanctions against Zimbabwe by most of the world pressured Mugabe and Tsvangirai to accept a power sharing arrangement. However, Mugabe once the sanctions were lifted reneged on the agreement. He still controlled the state media which was, according to the 2008 agreement, to be completely non partisan. What this quotation shows is that the dictator maintained his control over the military, the police, and the media and with that really controlled the country.
Robert Waterman McChesney is an American professor notable in the history and political economy of communications, and the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He co-founded the Free Press, a national media reform organization. From 2002–12, he hosted Media Matters, a weekly radio program every Sunday afternoon on WILL (AM), Illinois Public Media radio.
