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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
Seriously, in the more-or-less free market, Conservative talk radio has outsold Liberal talk radio by a huge margin. I don't have the demographics/Arbitrons at hand, but my observation is that Conservatives have 10 times the stations that Liberals do, easily. Why is it, in your opinion, that the government should change what is apparently the public preference for what they want to listen to/call in on?
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Because the airwaves are a public resource? With limited total bandwidth?
Practically, the government should seek to use better standards that allow for more radio channels. I believe that with modern technology, you can pretty much get rid of the radio channel shortage at FM quality, and do away with the entire "government dictates what you can listen to by selling the bandwidth off to the highest bidder, and banning anyone who doesn't have government permission to broadcast" issue.
At that point, with the airwaves no longer being in a serious state of shortage, let the free market reign. (This is the case on the internet, for example. Imagine if the government auctioned off the right to have webpages, and there where only ~20 allowed per city in the USA... And it was illegal to set up an alternative internet...)