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From: norm@ariel.UUCP (N.ANDREWS)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Corp. for Public B'cast (Testament)
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 12:11:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 12:11:42 1984
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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