But not too vast that it can't be taxed. And the power to tax is the power to destroy...
(Just playing the devil's advocate as far as I could...)
Talk radio IS NOT NEW!!!
Imagine the world the author describes?! I lived it. Well, almost. You had to look hard sometimes to get the "rest of the story" -- or, for that matter, just to get the story -- during the dark age of the FCC "Fairness Doctrine."
You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time, but to fool all of the people (almost) all of the time you need a 'Fairness Doctrine."
Talk radio was not invented by this generation. President Reagan freed it from prison in 1987. It did more than twenty years behind bars placed there by liberals' complaints against conservative opinion. Station owners dropped discussion fearing for their licenses.