And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

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  Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created

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  When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco

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  The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.