by Gary C. Gibson

Created on: May 27, 2007   Last Updated: May 04, 2009

Governments should help business and media in the expression of their freedoms,yet not be toadies to transnational corporations degrading individualism simultaneously. Governments should protect democracy for individualists and routinely roll back areas of corporate and media hegemony over the democracy. When the broadcast media is allocated exclusively to the rich how can the values of real ordinary Americans be anything but destroyed and the interests of concentrated wealth promoted? Networks in the United States have become transfusion lines from individuals to concentrations of global wealth removing American savings and private property. Networks require spending and sending of money to exist in the U.S. physical environment without which their are far fewer opportunities to provide for one's self or family as formerly existed until the 1970's. Governments have supported the encroachment of networks into American lives as basic economic facts and have created a wealthy neo-collectivism as devastating to individual prospects and personal material stability as was communism in the Soviet Union.

Governments allocate the broadcast spectrum to the highest bidders-those with deep pockets/concentrated wealth. The broadcast media may portray individuals in politics heroically or as klutzes or as malefactors in relation to their will of coverage approach. Wealthy corporations and individuals own the broadcast media and focus upon subjects and topics that weaken democracy and strengthen glob-al-ism for the corporate profit and network schemes. Even mass social media may compel a reduction in intelligent social thought by the simultaneously mental conditioning of masses to stupid conformity politicizing speech in the process; rewarding non-intelligent synchophancy and punishing non-conformed creative intelligence. Mass communications of the rich promoting an ethos of egoistic, idiotic consumerism cannot support or solve mass social problems nor those of intelligent ecological rectification of environmental decline.

Governments since the Internet era had the ability and opportunity to change the way the broadcast media spectrum is offered to the public and transform it in to a media for individual Internet podcast-rebroadcasts. The concentration of media broadcast power in wealthy corporations subverts the principle of democratic equal opportunity to form political opinions. The United States could readily allocate a slice of the broadcast spectrum to every American

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