But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

So the competition isn't once you got the license, running the station; it's getting the license.

In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.