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.
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.
When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn`t setting the terms of the competition.
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it`s picking the winners in the competition.
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.
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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.
