And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What's happened to broadcasting is that broadcasting really used to be... it used to have a very clear public service quotient. And it's more or less now. And it's been lost.
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.
Broadcasting is really too important to be left to the broadcasters.
At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.
I think there's something unfortunate about the attention that performers get in our media, but the weight of government propaganda is so heavy that anyone with a different point of view who has access to the media has a responsibility to use it.
The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.
Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
As long as we, in the United States, continue to insist that our politicians have to spend all of their time raising millions of dollars for television ads, it will be corrupt. If we leave it up to the politicians to clean up lobbying and finance reform, nothing is going to change.
Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again.
The media's about to become a lot more effective.