...The overwhelming amount of news and entertainment comes via broadcast and print. Putting those outlets in fewer and bigger hands profits the few at the cost of the many.
Does that sound unconservative? Not to me. The concentration of power -- political, corporate, media, cultural -- should be anathema to onservatives. The diffusion of power through local control, thereby encouraging individual participation, is the essence of federalism and
the greatest expression of democracy.
...That's why I march uncomfortably alongside CodePink Women for Peace and the National Rifle Association, between liberal Olympia Snowe and
conservative Ted Stevens under the banner of "localism, competition and diversity of views." That's why, too, we resent the conflicted refusal of most networks and stations and their putative purchasers to report fully and in prime time on their owners' power grab scheduled for June 2.
