Now that our media companies and it appears are policies are traded for cash, what is there to check the continuing consolidation of power and diminishing of democracy?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.
The media is absolutely essential to the functioning of a democracy. It's not our job to cozy up to power. We're supposed to be the check and balance on government.
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read.
I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.
I'm worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
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