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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: John Vosilla who wrote (173331)10/8/2011 6:04:44 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (1) of 543201
 
What's particularly interesting to me about the Dylan Ratigan effort to get money out of politics: Cable channels and broadcasters make huge dollars off all those campaign and PAC ads. The establishment media is definitely against anything that might reduce their revenue stream in election years.
So it will be interesting to see if MSNBC's owners stay neutral if Ratigan's efforts begin to take off. We're talking billions of dollars to Comcast alone in election advertising money.
An alternative solution often proposed is requiring broadcasters to provide a couple hours a week of free time to bonafide candidates during the last month of a campaign. As you might imagine this would go over like a lead balloon in the broadcast sector. (Several other countries do it this way)

It is also a major reason why the issue gets so little coverage by broadcasters, or newspapers too, for that matter. They love all that money.
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