The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

You know, a left-winger, the barrier to success if you're on the left in commercial radio is a mile and a half higher than it is if you're on the right.

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.

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

In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with public broadcasting was, "Okay, we'll allow there to be a handful of public stations to do the educational programming that commercial broadcasters don't want to do, but the deal is they can't do anything that can generate an audience, anything that's commercially viable." Anything they do that could be commercially viable could be considered unfair competition to commercial interests and should only be on the commercial stations.

Copyright protects corporate monopoly rights over culture and provides much of the profits to media conglomeratesm encouraging the wholesale privatization of our common culture.