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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (16688)	11/6/2002 1:22:45 AM
From: MSI	Respond to of 93284

Good suggestion. Difficult to do, since they need to fill airtime, and Congress has no spine to go up against the powerful broadcast lobby. Another is to recognize the airwaves are the commons, that spectrum is allocated by the people, that an informed electorate is the only way to keep a democracy. There needs to be an allocation of channel time for political discourse by all comers, something like the over-5% that Arizona uses for its "clean money" legislation. With video and radio allocation of one or two channels out of the hundred, fulltime for political discourse, they miss out on a billion dollars per election cycle, so it takes massive public support of the spineless self-interested Congress to get this through. But it would certainly help improve the level of debate beyond Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum