I went two or three days with being told that it could not be opened, then it was fixed and now this morning I am back to the not available screen again.

Why does the state "own" the right to switch modulate an electromagnetic pulse through a given length of wire at a specific frequency and power? (therefore allowing them to lease it to station owners who must then agree to any specific terms)

This is the absolute definition of a state controlled rent, which they offer out to rent-seekers.

However….

When networks contract for public airways they agree to rules and guidelines. No one forces them to do so. So they should comply.

Otherwise, there is always cable.

The cable networks are producing much better original programming anyway. How many autopsies can we watch?

Is the New York Times mainstream and big city enough for you?

This is one of the problems that emerges from the micro-behavior of thinking in terms of what is "right" and "wrong" (in some universal sense). I've been on an exercise this year to eliminate the word "should" from my vocabulary.

When people become convinced- nay, never consider otherwise- that there is an absolute right and wrong, then it becomes incumbent on everyone to enforce every little petty belief that we think is right or wrong. "We" must enforce it far and wide. Homogenity must prevail for the universal moralists. There exists in their minds no ability to be individually right.

" Citizens have freedom of speech and of the press in keeping with the objectives of socialist society. Material conditions for the exercise of that right are provided by the fact that the press, radio, television, cinema, and other mass media are state or social property and can never be private property. This assures their use at exclusive service of the working people and in the interests of society. "

Article 53 of the Cuban Constitution..

All broadcasters are required to go through a re-licensing process every eight years. This alone has a chilling effect on what television or radio is willing to do. You do not want to stir up the loonies on either side.

So? You get a lot of puff journalism. The first rule? Defend your license.

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Rudy

Yes, a terrible power that is easily neutered with a little thing called the off button.