Robert McChesney
Robert McChesney
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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.
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This White House has a knack for evading prosecution. The only way for justice to be served is for thousands to stand up and demand that charges stick against an administration that has set aside more than a quarter billion dollars to push propaganda on the public.
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What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.
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As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
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When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.
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When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.
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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
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One survey that I saw that was published I think in Variety or Electronic Media within the last three weeks says that now the average hour of radio in the United States has 18 minutes of commercials.
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One side, profits go up, they own more and more, but the diversity, interest, creativity and quality of the programming goes way down.
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Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.
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So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.
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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.
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Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
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Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.