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Originally posted by Charlatan
There needs to be meaningful access given to the public. At present this is not the case. [/B]
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What constitutes meaningfiul access? And does it include taking away the broadcasting company's say in the kind of content they broadcast?
The thing about the First Amendment is that it prevents the government from abridging the citizens' right to free speech, it says nothing about the media's right to control the kind of content put out over the equipment it owns, run by the personnel it pays for.
And, as far as I'm concerned, frequencies in a particular region are owned by the broadcasters that license them. It's no different than a business owning the land that its offices are built on.
By the way, here's the First:
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.