-Caveat Lector- (in the old days it was the council of 300--now we are down to the council of 3? ><<From the _Chronicles_ magazine November 2000 issue: > >"I'm Liberated; Free at Last!" > >A Talk With Pat Buchanan >by Bill Kauffman > >(SNIP) > >K: How do we bust up the concentration of media ownership? > >B: You have to use the antitrust laws, and I'd certainly be >prepared to. Newspapers, for example, should be owned by >Americans. > >I'm not sure what Bill Gates did to me to be attacked by the >antitrust division of the Department of Justice. As far as I >know, he tried to give me a free browser. Microsoft is a >national asset. If they did something wrong, fine them, and tell >them, "Don't do it again." But don't smash up this company. > >Take a look at what's far more dangerous: a concentration of >power, in which a handful of companies get control of the >mechanism by which ideas and information and political news >are spread throughout a society of 270 million people. > >I thought CNN was a great idea, and frankly I didn't like the >idea of it merging with [Time-Warner], and now they're going to >merge with AOL. Two or three people in the country are going >to be able to decide the career, or the noncareer, of virtually >every journalist and columnist and commentator in America. >They'll be able to kill all but the biggest, like a Rush Limbaugh; >and even there they have enormous power. So I do believe in >maximum decentralization of the media. > >K: What about requiring radio and TV licensees to live in the >cities in which they have licenses? > >B: I think that's a great idea. You should have some kind of >preference in the law for folks who live in the town, because >these absentee landlords sit up there and own 85 or 100 >newspapers and they don't give a hoot about what's going on in >Podunk, as long as the _Podunk News_ makes money. They >go out there and reformat it and put their bingo games in, and it >ceases to be a community newspaper. > >If every radio station and every newspaper were owned by >people who lived in the town, it would be far better than these >giant media conglomerates....>> > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
