Why Is This Reform Needed

This reform is absolutely vital for several reasons. Most important among them are:

• That allowing one major industry, media conglomerates in this instance, to de-regulate itself and run amuck in the face of the public interest sets an extremely dangerous precedent. These injustices have been going on for far too long and we need to put a stop to them, before other major industries seek similar exemptions.

• The free give away of valuable public resources to private entities for their own profit, with no reciprocal return of benefits or services, runs counter to the logic of a capitalist economy and good government.

• In an age of increasing threats from natural disasters and terrorist attacks it is absolutely vital for our first responders, who serve 50% of this country, to have a means to efficiently communicate and coordinate their actions in case of an emergency. That this has not been guaranteed already is as frightening as it is absurd.

• The sooner we can complete the two simple solutions offered in the previous section, and evaluate their effects, the faster we can move on to other pressing issues in media reform such as fair and free coverage to public political campaigns, and obligations to provide educational programming for children.