Nevertheless, I support their right to edit their coverage as they please. Their air time is their property to be sold to the highest bidder. The content decisions of TV producers are primarily based on financial rewards. TV often condenses special event coverage to accommodate their audience s limited attention span, and to a lesser extent, the producer s political preferences. In this case, they cut away to relatively boring stuff to avoid Clinton s video flip-flops.
Freedom is the core issue.
It s up to the people to be informed and to select the best sources of information. The alternatives to a free media, even a liberally biased free media, are not attractive. Asking government to intercede invites the fulfillment of Orwell s Big Brother concept. This government regulation conflicts with the Framer s intent and should be limited to only the technological aspects of sharing the airwaves without regard to broadcast content. Fortunately, recent legislative efforts to further regulate the content of talk radio and the Internet either failed to pass or were struck down by the courts.