Re: [Fwd: WQEW make your move])

[Larry Weil <kc1ih@mediaone.net>]

At 12:57 PM -0500 12/28/98, Dib9@aol.com wrote:
>
>As for public service, my view is that the more members of the public that
>listen to your station, the more public service you are providing.  I don't
>see how the government can determine what is in the "public interest."  A
>station with a 10 rating is serving the public ten times more than a station
>with a 1 share.  What good is it to provide programming that the public
>"needs" if hardly anyone listens to it?  I know my view is not consistent with
>FCC regulations.

So, by that logic, a station which serves the great white christian
majority is by definition performing a greater level of public service than
one which primarily serves a small minrity group.

I don't think so!

And, please leave the anti-government rhetoric for the melitia newsgroups
and mailing lists.

Larry Weil

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