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Re: good Phoenix article
At 05:22 PM 6/5/2003, Dan Billings wrote:
>The use of the airwaves is supposed to serve the public interest. I don't
>see how anyone can be serving the public interest if no one is listening.
>
>-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
I know this is blasphemy...but I've never actually seen where it says that
AM/FM licensees must serve the public interest. Is this just an axiom or
was there an actual rule about it at one point?
Your argument is "slippery slope" too, Dan....if a defining part of serving
the public is to get listeners, then you're almost always pandering to the
lowest common denominator. That's kinda how we got where we are
now. There are exceptions, of course...NPR comes to mind...but by and
large it's lowest common denominator programming.
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