This law is one that Pacifica has violated, and it is routinely violated by many stations around the country. However, as far as I know it is still a law, and if citizens get organized as I believe Jerry Starr would like, this is quite an important tool for community groups to have at their disposal. There is no Carnegie Commission at this time to focus a critique. Public Telvision as it is now constituted would be too vulnerable. Too open to criticism.
Labor is too militant.
As Seattle has demonstrated, progressive forces are too organized. So there has been no national forum for that sort of discussion. A reform movement for this new millenium has resources which were not present in the 1970's. Things are different now. There is a potential for a broad movement for communication reform.