Yes. And since we’re aware of that, we have to fight it on that ground. I don’t know how an appeal to localism can hold any water. In a major market like Chicago, we have literally every kind of programming imaginable. It’s not all on one station, but that would be impossible. All you have to do is tune in to the station of your choice, and you’ve got what you want. Moreover, the reason why the diversity exists because the audience supports it. There is plenty of local content on most stations. Very few offer only syndicated programming. There is similar divesity in smaller markets, and even out in the small towns, most are within the signal range of the stations in the big cities. You’d have to be in a pretty remote location not to have access to localism and diversity in proramming.
As Our President is fond of saying, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.” If they force this pig on us, then I think we are close to a situation described in the first few paragraphs of the Declaration (if we’re not there already.) We’ve come to a pretty sad point when the government of the United States, which according to its rhetoric is the vanguard and protector of freedom, starts doing everything it can to stamp freedom out.
....In other words, we will more likely then not see a new revolution as a result.