“In the US, commercial interests stole the airwaves early on, before public broadcasters could get a stab at it. And the deal that was made with public broadcasting was, "Okay, we'll allow there to be a handful of public stations to do the educational programming that commercial broadcasters don't want to do, but the deal is they can't do anything that can generate an audience, anything that's commercially viable." Anything they do that could be commercially viable could be considered unfair competition to commercial interests and should only be on the commercial stations.”
![“[The media] are using a national treasure - that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.” quote by Amy Goodman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/553/amy-goodman-19343_diversity_the-media-are-using-a-national-treasure_2606054.jpg)
![“The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.” quote by Robert Waterman McChesney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eec/robert-waterman-mcchesney-2452_business_the-range-of-debate-between-the-dominant_78941.jpg)
