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.
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.
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.
As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.
