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"The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter."
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"I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants."
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"We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails."
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"Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been."
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"The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it."
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"Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families."
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"Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare."
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"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers."
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"We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories."
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"I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things."
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"Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before."
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"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services."
Media
"Which is supposed to mean they're doing something in their broadcasting they would not do is they were simply out to maximize profit; if they were really public service institutions, not purely profit maximizing institutions."
Media
"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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"Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it."
Government
"The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves."
Public
"When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition."
Government
"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?"
People
"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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"Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying."
Saying
"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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