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

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.

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

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.

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

The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective.

Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.