It’s bad enough for a candidate to end his campaign slogan in a preposition. Now, he’s portrayed as not knowing the difference between the subject and an object of a sentence.

What a typically asinine comment.

Clear Channel Communications was blamed for placing its stations on ‘autopilot’ and resulting failure to warn area residents not to go outside when an ammonia tanker derailed on 18 January 2002. Clear Channel owned all of the commercial radio stations in Minot at the time. One man died and dozens were injured attempting to flee the area while Clear Channel continued to play their satellite feeds.

That’s not broadcasting in the public interest.

The FCC when the license comes up for renewal.

Lots of strawmen there, Woody. I didn’t mention the Fairness Doctrine. Mario Cuomo opposes the renewal of the Fairness Doctrine.

I worked in the broadcasting industry for nearly twenty years, Woody. Randy Michaels has a lousy reputation amongst independent local radio operators. He represents everything bad in broadcasting: the homogenization of radio and mediocritization of television.

In your typical peckerwood fashion, you attempt to tar me with an empty brush. Jackass.

And who gets to decide what is in the “public interest?” You? Do you favor restoring the “Fairness Doctrine?” Here’s the take on that by another liberals: Talk Radio, Fairness, and the Common Good

Even if it’s not conservative, even “bad journalists” have a right to publish.

Michaels, who used to run Jacor and Clear Channel Radio is largely crddited with turning local radio into a sewer. it was Michaels who, with Clear Channel had the operations of several combined into one, and often had them run remotely with no personnel there, in violation of FCC regulations.

Under Michaels, Clear Channel effectively abandoned local programming outside of large metro areas. No less a Republican than Herbert Hoover stated that the airwaves belong to the public. The Communications Act is clear: broadcasters are licensed to broadcast in the public interest. Michaels response has effectively been an upraised middle finger.

Zell is bad news; Michaels is even worse.