Reply #13: So that justifies billion dollars sale of the public airwaves and removal of the public resource [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

Notion that anything over the airwaves is a public resource will cease to exist.

This is the privatization and firesale of the airwaves.

And a tool to force all americans to pay for television, as the Cable ads make CRYSTAL CLEAR.

"You can still keep your analog box if you want, but Cable consumers will NOT be affected...
get answers and BUY CABLE LIKE A NORMAL AMERICAN!"

When Clinton did this the civil libertarians and good government types were ALL over this
but ordinary dems don't give a shit, witness the laughing responses you get here. Most DUers
are political junkies who refuse to survive without cable or digital pay TV anyway. They will
continue to get their thinking from what they hear on TV just as DU only talks about what is
on TV even to argue with "the propaganda" while they ignore the issues that over the air
broadcasters will no longer have a public obligation to talk about, now that it has been
made a private resource.

When Clinton did this he legislated the destruction of all opposition to a
billion dollar corporate owned media-cracy. Who promptly used it against Dems, btw.
but only to propagandize against the "liberals" and poor folks that Clinton himself hated.
He was perfectly at peace with the idea of a Bush interregnum.