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There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

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As the mainstream media has become increasingly dependent on advertising revenues for support, it has become an anti-democratic force in society.

Advertising, Increasingly, Mainstream Society, Media, Society, Support
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In many respects, we now live in a society that is only formally democratic, as the great mass of citizens have minimal say on the major public issues of the day, and such issues are scarcely debated at all in any meaningful sense in the electoral arena. In our society, corporations and the wealthy enjoy a power every bit as immense as that assumed to have been enjoyed by the lords and royalty of feudal times.

Arena, Citizens, Electoral, Enjoy, Issues, Meaningful

The relationship between the media owner, their relationship isn't strictly with people and audiences. It's also with advertisers, and that's the most relationship in radio; in fact it pays the bills.

Advertisers, Audiences, Media, Pays, People, Radio

An informed public democracy means rule of the people. A media system is absolutely essential to that process, if people are going to be political equals, they to have to have the information and tools so they can actually be participants. That's liberal democracy 101.

Democracy, Mean, People, Political, Process

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.

Companies, Government, New York, Rights

If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation.

Depoliticization, Helping, Inequality, Internet, Salt, Stagnation
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