Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ariel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!ariel!norm From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Corp. for Public B'cast (Testament) Message-ID: <800@ariel.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 12:11:42 EST Article-I.D.: ariel.800 Posted: Fri Dec 14 12:11:42 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Dec-84 02:02:40 EST References: <697@ames.UUCP> Organization: AT&T-ISL, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 19 To: vax135!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!barry > Perhaps if barry studies the matter a little bit more he will discover that today's commercial television is not entirely free market television. There is such a thing as licensed broadcast monopolies. There is no free market for slices of the air wave spectrum. There is the big three networks. Did government (FCC) have anything to do with their size/competitive-advantage/programming? > Also, the free market is not a panacea to the world's or any culture's problems. The free market and certain cultures are incompatible. If a culture embraces non-reason or embraces crap in general, don't expect the free market, to the extent it can survive in such a culture, to provide people with excellence. The market, after all, is only as good as the people that make it. One shouldn't worry so much about the market's influence on television programming as on the society's culture and the philosophies that drive it... > -norm andrews, vax135!ariel!norm