Indeed, just a few days ago, the Supreme Court noted that a majority of Americans rely on television as their primary source of electoral information. I do not want the government to decide which views I can and cannot hear. I think that the public is always better served when it hears different viewpoints than when it hears only one side of the story, whether that one side is the government's or the broadcaster's. In my mind, television is therefore much more than a toaster with pictures, and radio is much more than a toaster with sound. They educate us, entertain us and shape our future.
Most broadcasters do a good job of serving the public interest.
But it would be nothing short of miraculous if they all did. We owe it to the public, and we owe it to those broadcasters who are unfairly carrying the full load, to better define and enforce the public interest standard. And we should not be deterred in this critical task by those who would use specious constitutional arguments to try and block the way. Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes .