Hugo Chavez demostrates why the wonkish concept of privately owned, tradable spectrum rights are actually an important democratic right: Read the rest of this entry »
Hugo Chavez demostrates why the wonkish concept of privately owned, tradable spectrum rights are actually an important democratic right: Read the rest of this entry »
The most common case for public broadcasting is a fairly simple ‘market failure’ one: the market will under provide certain types of socially desirable broadcasting content. For many commentators on the left, that content is left wing or anti-corporate opinion which, it is argued, won’t be broadcast on commercial networks for advertising considerations. Some commentators on the right fear that ‘high-quality’ news and opinion won’t be broadcast: the challenge for the right that the high-quality content provided is balanced. Read the rest of this entry »