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The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

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Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

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But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.

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Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending.

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The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races.

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Basically what they're saying is, if you want to be on TV, if you want to be a credible candidate, you've got to buy ads. And if you're not buying ads, you're not a credible candidate, we don't cover you.

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Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

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So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

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But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

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What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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