In the two markets they have been able to find financing in, they are becoming top rated shows. Tell me, do I not exemplify a potential market? I have absolutely no choice on the radio dial for politcal talk than the national and local right-wing radio fascists. None. How is my market being served? Am I the only one in the whole city who wishes I didn't have to listen to it?
Also, I travel across the Eastern US three or four times a year, and as often as possibe I try to arrange it so I can drive my SL. The only thing unpleasurable about it is that what is true in Houston is true everywhere. With the exception of a few college stations with a range of about two miles, it is a national barrage of this stuff, with nothing else. You cannot tell me, that in the 150 million people served in those markets I drive thru, that this is the only thing people want. Understanding what is going on here is understanding the politcal role that corporations are assuming in our society, a role they have always been barred from serving. In essence, they are financing a self-serving political viewpoint, propagandizing on a 24/7 basis, supporting a single candidate for President, Bush. It does not entertain and inform as a primary purpose, it exhorts the people to vote for this man, and condemns his opponents. If that is not corporate participation in elections, I don't know what is. It is illegal in my viewpoint, and did not come about solely on the basis of market forces.