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Originally posted by sixate
It's a stupid pointless ad. Like Bush is the only president that has contributed to the deficit. Gimme a break.
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No, he's just one of the most prolific spenders ever.
Witness this research paper done by the Heritage Foundation, a Washington based conservative think tank (also the
most widely cited think tank in the media).
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/BG1710.cfm
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Originally posted by SuperMidget
Two things.
One, CBS pays an obscene amount of money for broadcasting and re-braodcasting rights and licenses from the FCC. Broadcasting is not free. True, anything on the airwaves are free and public domain, but CBS must pay for a frequency to put anything out there first.
Two, CBS, like any business has complete control of their product. Their transmissions are the product they produce. As long as the content is legal, they are free to record and broadcast whatever they feel will make them the most money. If they choose not to air a commercial, that is a business decision and should be thought of as such, CBS has no obligation to the public (they have contracts, as does any company that retransmits a television signa,l to allow the government full use of the system in an emergency) to provide fair access to the general public.
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Nonsense.
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While it would not seem obvious from present policy, broadcast spectrum is a publicly owned resource. However, in being granted a license from the Federal Communications Commission, private entities are given, free of charge, monopoly rights to make grandiose profits from this resource. The only stipulation placed upon award of these licenses is that stations must serve the "public interest." Left to their own devices, however, networks have shown time and again that when the public competes with profit, the public loses.
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http://www.mediareform.net/issue.php?id=broadcast