People often say that Democracy is an experiment, yet I don't regard life as a practice for a future temporal state. The broadcast media is the death of democracy. It's an anti-egalitarian exclusivist consolidator of corrupt, illicit power for special interests.
Hence if the media seems to appeal to the masses as their champion they provide the lazy citizens undemocratic representation for them making their 'democracy' a spectator sport. Sartre wrote in 'Being and Nothingness' that the fundamental relation of the listener to radio is impotence.
The technology has existed for quite a while for individual citizens to use the FCC regulated broadcast spectrum instead of giving it out to high bidders. It would be a new infrastructure restoring democracy to the public broadcast discourse. Via Internet radio that is rebroadcast through publicly maintained broadcast facilities (perhaps contracted to private facilities operators) radio freqs would be operated and shared like local highways for all to use locally just as are highways. If public roads were exclusively used by the most rich high bidders they would have as little value as radio and television has had in support of private interests.
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