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

The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

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

What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

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.

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

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