for all the news/views and cultures worth programming for.

If your culture and views aren't aired, you're not worth listening to.
 

Not so:

In the February 1997 American Demographics article "The Emerging Culture",  

Paul H. Ray argues that one of the reasons that media ignores so many Americans is that 
those who make the programming decisions don't care about or care for our news/views values and culture.

Do you find yourself both "liberal" and "conservative ... or reject this binary choice as worthless?

This research has found three major groupings of values in America; 
the two that are commonly thought of as "liberal" and "conservative" ... 

and a third emerging culture referred to as "Cultural Creatives" that combine aspects of both.

"Cultural Creatives" are generally well educated, 
well paid and 
hungry for news and culture ... 
yet we have very few radio or TV programs designed for us  ... because we are not making the programming decisions.

Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored pointed out,
"... eleven major corporations
with 157 people sitting on the boards of directors
own almost all media ...

those 157 people are corporate America ..."

These are the same 157 people that control most 
of what we see and hear

These 157 people also control 14% 
of all corporations in America,
not just media corporations.

In other words, the media watchdogs are actually the lapdogs of the burglars at whom they are supposed to bark.
 

Mergers allowed by the 1996 Telecom Act 

have brought U.S. close to a monopoly disaster ... 

There is no competition to speak of 

And the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) plans to ensure that it stays that way at your expense!

Radio is "... the lifeblood of a Free Society",
Newt Gingrich, 1994

Our Democratic Republic depends on a careful balance of power 
and an effective “free press” 
that is neither overly influenced 
by government or private influence.

Media is the feedback loop 
between those who make policy 
and those who suffer from policy.

You have the right to matter, 
for your stories, 
your interests 
and inspirations 
to be heard by those 
who's votes affect your life and freedom.

It does not matter whether those votes are 
fellow citizens, 
boards of directors of corporations, 
bureaucrats or 
Congresspersons and Senators.
All these votes affect your life.

America will only function with justice 
so long as the media 
includes the broadest 
possible spectrum of the people.
 

• Since the broadcasters use 
  our tax money supported agencies 
  (Federal Communication Commission) 
  to protect their use 
  of our public resources 
  (the airwaves) ...
• a radio dial that 
  misrepresents and/or 
  deletes entire cultures, 
  philosophies, 
  views and 
  music ...
• IS LITERALLY TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.