"If policymakers are serious about avoiding a society of TV 'haves and have-nots,' they should refrain from policies that favor pay-TV operators over the providers of our nation's only free and local communications system: over-the-air broadcasting."
"Business deals are successfully negotiated every day throughout America. The common thread is a mutual desire to reach an accord. And the media business is no different."
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Source: Gordon Stein (1980). “An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism”
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