Famous quotes by Critics

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

Robert McChesney, Critic

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

Robert McChesney, Critic

"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills"

Robert McChesney, Critic

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

Robert McChesney, Critic

"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 McChesney, Critic

"If you look at the history of broadcasting, what you find is the National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association whose mission is to protect the interests of the commercial broadcasters"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example, for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"Real movie producers aren't this nice"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something, so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"There are scenes here and effects here that would make George S. Patton wince"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"The studio should not have released this film"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either"

Joel Siegel, Critic

"In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Faith is like a kernel of wheat"

Joe Bob Briggs, Critic

"Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young"

Henry Seidel Canby, Critic

"When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Thus, if armaments were curtailed without a secure peace and all countries disarmed proportionately, military security would have been in no way affected"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second!"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference"

Ludwig Quidde, Critic

"You can't believe Russell Crowe is the same actor who won an Oscar one year ago for Gladiator"

Joel Siegel, Critic

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