My question stems from the fact that this does not also include a similar investigation into televised and printed media. The “multiple structural problems in the U.S. regulatory system” needs to be applied across the board to all forms of meda outlets including movies and documentaries then.
In most of central and northeastern NJ, there are only progressive newspapers, mostly because that’s what sells and is supported by the dominating political bent of this area. If you want to balance talk radio by regulation, then you’ll need to do so in the other formats. Does this mean the government will need to censor these newspapers for too much progressive opinion as well, or subsidize a conservative newspaper in the same areas?
For every Michael Moore documentary that is normally released, movies theaters should be forced to carry some right wing propaganda documentary as well? If you encourage regulation over what gets broadcast and printed to the government agencies, the controlling party will find ways to censor the opposition even more. I’m not sure that this is what I want to happen anymore than it is already.
I’m in favor of less government regulation of the media, not more. Let what’s popular in the minds of the public dominate the media marketplace, not what’s advantageous of the political parties vying for more control. We have much too much of that already.
The politicians now are agonizing over the fact that they haven’t been able to control the internet bloggers. What’s the next step after talk radio?
