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.
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So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.Robert McChesney
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.
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The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.
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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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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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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.
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