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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
Some, such as Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich, contend that real media choices, information sources included, remain scarce, hindering citizens from fully participating in a deliberative democracy.

They tried the 24-7 Kook station, but it filed bankruptcy.

3 posted on 04/16/2007 7:30:55 AM PDT by Always Right
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To: Always Right

Interesting!

“Sunstein also proposes a kind of speech redistributionism. For the Internet, he suggests that regulators could impose “electronic sidewalks” on partisan websites (the National Rifle Association’s, say), forcing them to link to opposing views. The practical problems of implementing this program would be forbidding, even if it somehow proved constitutional. How many links to opposing views would secure the government’s approval? The FCC would need an army of media regulators (much as China has today) to monitor the millions of webpages, blogs, and social-networking sites and keep them in line.”


5 posted on 04/16/2007 8:00:14 AM PDT by griswold3
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