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

Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions.

In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

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

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?