November 02, 2000
Fighting Over The Airwaves
source: MSNBC

A mugging has taken place on Capitol Hill, and its victims are free speech and diversity of the public airwaves. Using the warp and woof of a presidential election year as cover, a Halloween coalition of commercial broadcasters and National Public Radio have strong-armed a provision into a budget bill that would kill a nascent community radio initiative called "Low Power FM radio."

posted on November 02, 2000 02:18 PM