Robert McChesney (American professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication): “The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers … is absurd” (quoted in Harry Kawilarang, “Quotations on Terrorism”, Trafford Publishing, UK, 2006).

Robert McChesney (American professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication): “As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society” (quoted in Harry Kawilarang, “Quotations on Terrorism”, Trafford Publishing, UK, 2006).